Nat Hentoff Quotes
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I love music.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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Dreams do come true, believe always. I dreamt every night of becoming a singer
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There is a direct relationship between your own level of self-esteem and the health of your personality. The more you like and respect yourself, the more you like and respect other people. The more you consider yourself to be a valuable and worthwhile person, the more you consider others to be valuable and worthwhile as well. The more you accept yourself just as you are, the more you accept others just as they are.
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Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.
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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW
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When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
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We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed.
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Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.
