Nat Hentoff Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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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.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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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.
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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.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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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.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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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.
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My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
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Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
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I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.
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What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
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This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.
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I think that it's proper to warn people when they have clearly crossed the line between the Kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of the cults.
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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
