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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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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Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.
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As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
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Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
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Do any of us believe in what we are doing here? I doubt it. Her NCO husband least of all. We are given an old racetrack and a quantity of barbed wire and told to effect a change in men's souls. Not being experts on the soul but assuming cautiously that it has some connection with the body, we set our captives to doing pushups and marching back and forth.
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Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.
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In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.
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If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka.