Christopher Hitchens Quotes
(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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War is over if you want it.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.
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My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.
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A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.
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I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.
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(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.
