Christopher Hitchens Quotes

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

Christopher Hitchens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011

Topics

CulturePerfectStrangersWhySee

It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.

Joe Wurzelbacher

LeadershipMeAmericanSaidRight

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

Meg Tilly

LifeFunYouMoviesWhyNever

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.

Robert Harris

FatherHistoryParentsWorldStrong

My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.

Michael Finley

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Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

Rob Bell

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I like to be fulfilled in telling stories and in creating, but I'm just a curious person.

Jay Ellis

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Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

Brad Henry

LifeEducationGreatLivingEarning

Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.

Pope Benedict XVI

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I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

Peter Criss

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We can dream about putting a man on the Moon, and within a decade, we actually made it happen.

Shervin Pishevar

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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

Scott Hamilton

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My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

Mark Leyner

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