Nat Hentoff Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus -
I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
Yoko Ono -
I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
Halsey -
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
Jack Ma -
I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
Sam Shepard -
I want to be free... free to develop my art.
Natalia Makarova
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I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.
Yoshihiko Noda -
Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.
O. J. Simpson -
When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
E. Y. Harburg -
I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
Ted Lange -
While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
Zach LaVine -
I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
Tamae Watanabe
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
Eckhart Tolle -
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
Ulrich Beck -
I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
Taran Killam -
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles -
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
Barbara Kingsolver
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To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.
Leon Uris -
I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
Talulah Riley -
The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
Ed Gillespie -
Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, “Do not racially profile us, we are Americans.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -
Even now, I have to smile when I think of this. I tell you, of all the things about Werner Vetter that appealed to me, this most of all warmed my heart: He had no respect for the truth in Nazi Germany.
Edith Hahn Beer -
Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
Nat Hentoff