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People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Being Being Funny Case Funny Matter Me People Say Think Time Want

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I love being with my family and just being a regular person.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Being Family Just Love Person Regular Regular Person I Love

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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

~Christopher Hampton

Topics: Allied Anything Arts Being Belief Direct Disappointments Energy Fantasies Fundamentally Great His Human Human Being Inadequate Life Literature Manufacture Number Our Result Troubled Who World

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I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Atheist Being Something Think You I Think

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'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Afghanistan Age Anything Back Being Bombed Bombing Does Favourite Headline Instant Liberals Out Quite Shows Slogan Some Stone Thought Work

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There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Baby Been Being Between Big Big Difference Difference Different French Happened Having Just Know Nice People Slightly Sure Very Word You

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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Antithesis Around Being Consciousness Determines Ever False May Other Philosophy Question School Solved Way Whether

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The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: American Any Anymore Ask Being Could Force Itself Left Meaningless Near Nonsensical Politics Really Term Well Why Would

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I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Being Idea Keen Unconscious

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There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Being Cannot Capable First Forget Lesson Liar Mass Neither People State War Which Who Years

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