Christopher Hitchens Quotes

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

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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Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.

Andy Dunn

GreatRisksTaking RisksSometimes

It's funny - until 'Catfish,' none of my films were angled at young people except for the fact that they were angled at me and my contemporaries. And that's who I'm constantly making things for. I'm not imagining a younger audience I'm trying to impart wisdom to; I don't want to seem pretentious enough to think I can impart wisdom.

Max Joseph

FunnyWisdomPeopleMeThinkEnough

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

John Lloyd

ChaosControlYouPredictEverything

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

Jeff Dunham

JobWifePeopleFreeBelieveLaugh

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Jeff Goodell

ChangeWarThinkProblemMeeting

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Tom Hanks

GoodBusinessWorldChanceYouBad

This country has a wonderful spirit.

Judy Sheindlin

CountrySpiritWonderful

Dating, to people, can mean completely different things.

Jay Ellis

DatingPeopleMeanThingsDifferent

I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.

Jose Ferreira

LoveFunTestStandardizedOutJust

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

Bonnie Tyler

ThinkYouIrishFabulousFriendly

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

Art Alexakis

PeopleMeRealityNothingAverage

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

Anthony Edwards

FeelBackTelevisionWhateverComing

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