Christopher Hitchens Quotes
If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
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I voted for McCain. But I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organized, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.
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Layton: After all these years of inaction, will the Prime Minister finally get something done and do something the former government would not do and that is to cancel the subsidies to big oil and big ass-I mean big gas and start putting-Stephen Harper: Mr. Speaker, I promise to get to the bottom of it.
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‘When I say 'mind,'’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’
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My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
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I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
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Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.
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A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.
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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
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I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God can only serve to confirm the ignorant in their superstitions.
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For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.
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All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.
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If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka.
