Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
Pankaj Mishra -
I'm pretty low-key and try to do fun things.
Malik Jackson -
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.
Tasha Smith -
One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
Zack Snyder -
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.
Tammy Duckworth -
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!
Rachel Joyce
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie -
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.
Larry Rivers -
I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.
Larry the Cable Guy -
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.'
Halle Berry -
I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
FKA twigs -
'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.
RaeLynn
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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.
Vanessa Hudgens -
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.
Daniel Alarcon -
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.
Barack Obama -
Jack Benny: We're a little late, so good night, folks.
Jack Benny -
I compete with myself.
Rani Mukerji -
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
Kiran Desai
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I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up.
Harvey Pekar -
If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
Marty Allen -
Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
Jim Henson -
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
James Altucher -
That most risky and volatile of all things—a self-pitying majority.
Christopher Hitchens