Nat Hentoff Quotes
A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.
Nat Hentoff
Quotes to Explore
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The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
Randy Wayne White
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
Tao Lin
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
Paloma Faith
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
Oscar Isaac
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
Adam Cohen
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
Damien Hirst
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She is all I could ever ask for, she is perfect, and right now, with those big, green eyes and pillowy lips and alabaster thighs, the idea of doing this for the rest of our lives doesn’t seem all that daunting. She’s the last reprieve. The stay of execution. She gives me hope. But times are tough for dreamers. And even if my dream is a simple one — all I want is for Her to be in love with me forever — I know it’s still a long shot. Life ruins everything.
Pete Wentz
Fall Out Boy
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My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into.
Ben Miller
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You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.
Carl Erskine
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
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A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.
Nat Hentoff
