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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• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  

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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.

  

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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?

  

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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.

  

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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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• The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

  

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

  

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• Everything in your world is created by what you think.

  

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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
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• A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?

  

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• They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
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• I knew that this was something that was going to be an intense experience, just from the way I typically approach my work. I did not take the fact that I was going to portray a soldier lightly. It was so very important to me that I came across as believable and honest and truthful. I wanted to be able to convey the psychology behind the choice of leaving home for an extended period of time, knowing that you may never come back while still being a devoted parent.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
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• A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH.

  

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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