#own

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#best #false #goal #measure #own

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#down #i #name #ready #sit

Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#been #card #credit #credit card #get

This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#amount #certainly #deep #deep down #down

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#book #day #down #dusk #get

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#again #believe #crazy #eden #garden

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civilisation #colony #disprove #dumping #either

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cats #compelled #conclusion #dogs #draw

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#beings #books #every #holy #human

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#better #comes #cynicism #down #hard