"I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Atheist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.”
“There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.”
“These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.”

Source : "New Orleans rocked by huge blasts". news.bbc.co.uk. September 2, 2005.
“There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers.”
“This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.”
“When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.”
“Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill.”
“What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.”

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