Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

Christopher Hitchens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.

Joe Gebbia

LifeHumanDifficultAcknowledge

I like whatever I'm doing to have depth.

Jermaine Fowler

DoingWhateverDepthLike

We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.

Joel Salatin

WantBreakOwnIncomeAutonomous

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Andrew Young

PeopleBlameSocietyYouMoralPoor

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?

Ann Patchett

NatureI AmPeopleThinkThoughtful

I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.

Jean Reno

CultureThinkYouLoseCulturesAct

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.

Mike Nichols

FamilyLoveFoodJoyMeShort

I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.

Mona Simpson

JobSchoolAmericanFeelFriends

I'm definitely a romantic, no doubt about it.

Michael Masser

RomanticDoubtNo DoubtAbout

We are born with freedom and hope, but often that's dashed because of our color. But in school, I'd already been taught that no one could tell me that you can't do something because you're black.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

HopeFreedomSchoolMeColorBlack

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

Jared Harris

MarriageFatherMotherChildrenYou

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

Joni Mitchell

ThinkGoArtsFineWouldContinue

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