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'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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I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
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[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release.
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There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that people tend to get emotional about. After all, money involves, and always has involved, something closely akin to faith-which probably explains why in many past societies the money system has been in the hands of a priesthood, the subject of magical rites, and the ceremonial services of the tribe's medicine man.
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It takes a lot of energy to teach.
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I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
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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.
