Nat Hentoff Quotes

I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

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• I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Want
  • Law

• There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • You
  • Risk

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Constitution
  • Short
  • Obscure

• The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Real
  • Sex
  • Story

• I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Power
  • Truth

• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happiness
  • Own
  • Ready

• As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Justice
  • Understand
  • Provide

• I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Time
  • Know
  • Silly

• We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • May
  • Army
  • Irish

• When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Desire
  • Survive
  • Helped

• Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Men

• I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.

  

  Jenny Han
  • People
  • Movie
  • Teen

• The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

  

  Donna Langley
  • World

• I'm a gypsy at heart. I have a little triangle where I tend to go, which is between Sydney, Los Angeles, and London, and I'm happy with that at the moment.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Gypsy

• My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

  

  James Polshek
  • People
  • Believe
  • Art

• When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Long
  • Food
  • Hair

• When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

  

  will.i.am
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Girl

• People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • People

• Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • She
  • Girl
  • Baby

• I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.

  

  Pablo Neruda

• I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Optimistic