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.
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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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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.
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The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.
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Oh, I'm up at 6:00 A.M. every morning because I have a lot to do. Plenty. I work out probably at, like, 8:00. I gotta eat at 6:00 so, therefore, I can workout at 8:00.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
