Nat Hentoff Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
Gail Devers -
The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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I've always been the, 'Sure, I'll try that' guy. I'm very adventurous and don't have fears. I think I got that from my mother's side because she was an Olympic skier. Jump off a mountain with a parachute? Sure. What could possibly go wrong?
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You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.
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The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
