Christopher Hitchens Quotes
David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
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Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?
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What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.
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I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.
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In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
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David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.
