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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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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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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I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
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I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."
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I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
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Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra, as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
