Nat Hentoff Quotes
We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
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Any young girl aspiring to a theatrical career held Florenz Ziegfeld in a awe.
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It doesn't hurt any of us to remember that Hollywood isn't at all impressed by anyone who has the fantastic illusion that the town must revolve around him.
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Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.
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We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
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I'm more of a Smithwick's or Bulmer's girl than a pint of Guinness.
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I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.
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Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.
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Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
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We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.
