Christopher Hitchens Quotes

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Christopher Hitchens

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• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

  Ilie Nastase
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• I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

  

  Vanna White
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  • Will

• We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.

  

  Washed Out
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• I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world - it was still running in the theatres - and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

  

  Wayne Rooney
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• A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

  

  Jack Dempsey
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• The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
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• Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• Sed ego adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.

  

  Sallust
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• Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam. But as a matter of fact it is well known and widespread in some areas of the world before the Islamic era, including the Arabian peninsula. Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
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• I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

  

  Mae West

• Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.

  

  Larry Wall
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• Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

  

  Luigi Pirandello
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• Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelfThan that I may not disappoint myself,That in my action I may soar as highAs I can now discern with this clear eye.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
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• When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

  

  Annie Leibovitz

• My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

  

  Joseph M. Kyrillos
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• Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

  

  George Carlin
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• Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

  

  C. Everett Koop
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• The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

  

  Christopher Hitchens