Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

Christopher Hitchens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

Joan Cusack

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I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.

Jesse Ventura

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I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.

John Mellencamp

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Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

Stanley Tucci

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Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Milton Sapirstein

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You could have all the tools in the world, but if you really don't want to be there, or if there's something that's off course that's playing on your mind... the game of golf is so mental, and if you don't have everything in the right order, it's very difficult to win golf tournaments.

Jason Day

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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

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Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

Dolly Parton

BestJustSinnersBunch

You try things creatively all the time, and while you want every one of them to be great, and you set out to do that, that's not always going to end up being the case.

Bob Iger

GreatTimeEndYouWantTry

My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

Armaan Malik

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