Nat Hentoff Quotes
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
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Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.
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I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
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The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.
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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
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In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.
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There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.
