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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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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When I don't have red, I use blue.
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Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and color are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes.
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In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
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I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.
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Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the high tower of the dwelling place of God, all these supposes will drop out of our lives. We shall be quiet from the fear of evil, for no threatenings of evil can penetrate into the high tower of God.
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
