Christopher Hitchens Quotes
When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.Christopher Hitchens
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
Wally Schirra -
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
Laura Prepon -
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
R. J. Cutler -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
Gary Hamel -
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
Orson Welles
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes -
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Joanne Rowling -
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
Halima Aden -
Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
Jack Ma -
I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
Vincent Cassel -
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
Walter O'Brien
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
Dalai Lama -
There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
Dan Gilbert -
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
Gary Sinise -
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci -
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
Sam Palladio -
As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
Jack Osbourne
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Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.
Matt Smith Poison -
Mark Udall wants to run a social issues campaign. He definitely wants to run as the social issues candidate.
Cory Gardner -
I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don't always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I'm traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.
Avicii -
The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.
Alex Shoumatoff -
We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
Armstrong Williams -
When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.
Christopher Hitchens