Nat Hentoff Quotes
When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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'I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.''As listeners, we are not required to understand,' said Qiingi. 'Only to care.'
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
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When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.
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It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'
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We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
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When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.
