Nat Hentoff Quotes

I've never met anybody quite like Bill Shawn. He created - and I'm sure it was conscious - an aura about him of quietude.

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• I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
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• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  

  Karl Marx
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• It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

  

  Edmund Husserl
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• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  

  Donald Trump
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• I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

  

  Lorde
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• Over the next several days, the design will be updated to reflect several changes, and new presentation materials will be created.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
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  • Changes
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• We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

  

  W. G. Sebald
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  • Result
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• The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Love
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• I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Role
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• an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mother
  • Earth
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• Everything in your world is created by what you think.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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  • Everything
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• Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Remember
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• A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

  

  Antonio Damasio
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• All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

  

  Eliphas Levi
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• If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• One misunderstandin g is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious.

  

  David Deida
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• Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
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  • Lost

• It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Decision
  • Hard
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• The future never just happened. It was created.

  

  Will Durant
  • Future
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• My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.

  

  Damien Dempsey
  • Song
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• Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

  

  William Penn
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Quality

• Jamie chose that moment to almost fall down the stairs. Mae took his whole weight and grabbed the banister. Seb reached out but Jamie shied away, and Nick gave Jamie a push in the chest that was clearly intended to right him, but that nearly had him toppling over backward. Balance eventually restored to them all, Jamie gave Nick an approving look. "You are my friend," he told him. "Yeah, I am," said Nick. "But these stairs," Jamie said sadly. "They are not my friends.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Fall
  • Moments
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• I've never met anybody quite like Bill Shawn. He created - and I'm sure it was conscious - an aura about him of quietude.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Conscious
  • Created
  • Aura