Christopher Hitchens Quotes
I, for one, will not have the Vietcong insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
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It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.
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Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.
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When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
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Tell me why, must I fall in love with you?
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I apologize in my capacity as leader of the NP to the millions who suffered wrenching disruption of forced removals; who suffered the shame of being arrested for pass law offences; who over the decades suffered the indignities and humiliation of racial discrimination.
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They say: 'In the long run truth will triumph;' but it is untrue.
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I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
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I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.
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I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think we're pretty much alike!
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.
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Khloe is amazing! I'm so proud of that kid.
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The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.
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I, for one, will not have the Vietcong insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.
