"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claimâ€”so modestly and so humblyâ€”to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world."

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Christopher Hitchens

#Atheist Quotes #Real Quotes #Godly Quotes

“I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.”
“Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.”
“When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.”
“I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.”

Source : "Golden Globe Awards 2015 Live Updates: Winners, Best Moments, Speeches, Photos And More". Maggie Gyllenhaal's Golden Globe speech for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie Award, www.ibtimes.com. January 11, 2015.
“It feel like winning the cup final, if that's what it feels like”
“Money or no money, acting is my calling”
“The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.”
“I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.”

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