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

• I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Bridge
  • Lessons
  • Bridges

• 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

• Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Optimistic

• My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

  

  Deana Carter
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Relationship

• I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Optimistic