Christopher Hitchens Quotes
In today's Britain, the idea that there could be a Constitution more powerful - and even sacrosanct - than any crowned head or elected politician (thus abolishing the false antithesis between hereditary monarchs and capricious presidents) is thought of as a breathtakingly new and daring idea.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.
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Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
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In today's Britain, the idea that there could be a Constitution more powerful - and even sacrosanct - than any crowned head or elected politician (thus abolishing the false antithesis between hereditary monarchs and capricious presidents) is thought of as a breathtakingly new and daring idea.
