Nat Hentoff Quotes
Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.Nat Hentoff
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
Lady Gaga -
I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
Damien Hirst -
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
Sam Levenson -
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
Laura Lippman -
I was a really big kid.
Dacre Montgomery
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
Taylor Swift -
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
Wally Lamb -
I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
Idris Elba -
When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
Hailee Steinfeld -
India is my kid sister.
Salman Rushdie -
I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
Jackson Rathbone
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I'm too much of a big kid.
Iain Glen -
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
Garth Ennis -
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.
Taylor Dayne -
I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
Erich Maria Remarque -
If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
Zig Ziglar -
I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
Oliver North -
I have always believed that freedom of information is so vital that only the national security, not the desire of public officials or private citizens, should determine when it must be restricted.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
I eat healthily because that's the way I prefer to eat, and I'm sure it helps keep the weight off.
Lesley Lawson -
Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
Nat Hentoff