Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I'm pretty low-key and try to do fun things.
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I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.
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One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
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I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.
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I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.
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I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
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Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
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We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff at Trump supporters. That's not what our democracy is about. That's not what you do. There's no room for violence. There's no place for shouting. There's no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side - even if you vehemently disagree.
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Jack Benny: We're a little late, so good night, folks.
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Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
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4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.
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Who needs sports stardom when you can shoot fireballs from your fingertips?
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The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.
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Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.
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That most risky and volatile of all things—a self-pitying majority.
