Nat Hentoff Quotes

A.J. Muste was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.

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• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Laugh

• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Trying
  • Thoughts
  • Enjoy

• Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Approach
  • Suit
  • Low-Key

• We need workfare over welfare.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Need
  • Over
  • Welfare

• Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Help
  • Peace

• I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Play

• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Trade

• I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Ballet
  • Dancer
  • Fosse

• I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Couple
  • Places
  • Australia

• Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Character
  • Today
  • Effort

• In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Life
  • Want
  • Issue

• I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Fame

• Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • World
  • Energy
  • Positive

• There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Important
  • Think
  • Game

• Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Said
  • Now

• Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Accountability
  • Corrupt

• New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Art
  • Innovation

• In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Plan
  • Defeat
  • Early

• To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.

  

  David E. Cooper
  • Want
  • Knows
  • Being

• Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Money
  • Giving
  • Successful

• You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Song
  • Knows

• At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • I Feel
  • Tenderness

• A.J. Muste was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Being
  • Believing