Christopher Hitchens Quotes

The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into 'America' inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.

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• Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

  

  Tara Reid
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • Health
  • Care

• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ideas

• In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Present

• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Great
  • Know
  • Mom

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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  • Girl
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• For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
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  • Great
  • Golf

• DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Job

• If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • You
  • Spirit
  • Place

• Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Information

• Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

  

  Anais Nin

• The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Time
  • Integrity
  • New York

• The future belongs to crowds.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Future

• I've thought about bringing my children to retrace my own steps of the morning of September 11, 2001, but they're too young for that. Maybe when they're twenty. Maybe by then, even though it's been only a short subway ride away for years now, I'll have the nerve to see the 9-11 memorial for the first time.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Time
  • Children
  • Morning

• The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into 'America' inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Great
  • America
  • Opportunity