Nat Hentoff Quotes
Cardinal John O'Connor had my wife Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch.
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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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.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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I was a really big kid.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
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'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.
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Cardinal John O'Connor had my wife Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch.
