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 just kind of continues to be strange and interesting to me to try to understand what other people are looking for. And this also just comes from getting older. You look at the stuff certainly that's coming out of Hollywood these days, and you go, "Did what came out of Hollywood when I was a kid make more sense, or was it just that I was in the demographic then?" But I certainly feel increasingly confused and disconnected from it.
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
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I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.
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There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.
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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.
