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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I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.
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Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.
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Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
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If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka.
