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Christopher Hitchens Quotes

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

Christopher Hitchens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011

Topics

Problems American Boring Image Left

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

Joe Perry

Love Rock And Roll Kind Rock Always

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Jim Cooper

Hope History Equality Law Slow Over

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

Jessica Chastain

Focus People Me Feel You Connection

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

John Nelson Darby

Life Respect Without Valuable Most

I'd never seen a professional wrestling match. First one I saw, I was in. It was just an accident.

Roddy Piper

Professional Wrestling Never First

Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.

Rodney Crowell

Girl Culture Woman Road Young Hard

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

Joss Whedon

Life People Me My Life Know Study

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

Joni Mitchell

Block Chip Dismiss Gershwin

At one point, in one of the kitchens where I worked, I was the only American pastry cook. They treated me poorly. 'You're stupid. You're American. You don't get it.' They'd speak French all day. At one point, my boss said to me, 'You learn French or get out right away.'

Johnny Iuzzini

Day Boss Me Stupid Speak Learn

When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're moving around too much on this stage. You're making us look bad!'

Dick Dale

Man Moving Vegas You Look Bad

The Jewish people remember the dramatic vote in the U.N. Assembly on November 29, 1947, when representatives of the nations recognized our right to national revival in our historic homeland.

Ariel Sharon

People Remember Vote Right Jewish

Montreal bagels are much better than U.S. bagels, because there's a sweetness to the dough, and there's a pull. New York bagels are basically bread in the shape of a bagel.

Antoni Porowski

New York Better New Bread Shape