Nat Hentoff Quotes

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

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• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Biblical
  • Prophet
  • Context

• I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Normal

• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Know
  • Film
  • Nostalgia

• I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Important
  • Women
  • Experience

• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • True
  • Being
  • Often

• So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Long
  • Done
  • Cold

• When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Look

• San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

  

  Jack London
  • Memories
  • Nothing
  • Gone

• I know all the books of the Bible.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Know
  • Bible
  • Books

• I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • American
  • Truck
  • Drive

• There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Real
  • Family

• 'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Bad
  • Society
  • Wealth

• 'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Great
  • Character
  • Friends

• As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • Money

• We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Book

• The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

  

  Plato
  • Voice
  • Musician
  • Harmony

• 'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Woman
  • Gossip
  • Falling

• How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Think
  • Numbers

• Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Music
  • Musician
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