Nat Hentoff Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
Rachel Kushner -
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.
Ed Balls -
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs -
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.
Utah Phillips -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
Lady Gregory -
The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
Tahar Rahim -
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars -
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor -
I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
J. B. Pritzker -
Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
Wayne Dyer
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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.
Hal David -
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
Samuel Horsley -
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Otto von Bismarck -
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.
C. V. Raman -
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.
Zendaya
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I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.
Brenda Laurel -
I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I don't complain when Kant does it. Or when Aristotle introduces all kinds of new words; he needed them. But these other people [modern philosophers] are just obfuscating. It just makes me annoyed.
William H. Gass -
Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.
Emmitt Smith -
What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.
Allan Douglass Coleman -
You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.
Elvis Costello -
The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
Nat Hentoff