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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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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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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Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!
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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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One of the difficulties for me is that I'm naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle.
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It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.
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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
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One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
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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.
