Nat Hentoff Quotes

I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot my wife hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

Nat Hentoff

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• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • Important
  • Kids

• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Character
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Superior

• I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Home

• You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Trying
  • Beginning

• I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Fall

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Work
  • She
  • Movie

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Morning

• Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Angry
  • Attacks

• It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Labor
  • Others

• I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Go

• We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Audience

• You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Body
  • Look
  • Year

• The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Important
  • Survival

• In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Change

• It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Asking

• I remember once when I was working on a magazine, and one of the male editors was going on a field trip with one of his sons. The office was full of, 'He's such a good dad,' whereas I came in late from a doctor's appointment for one of my children and was asked, 'Where were you? You'll need to make up the time.'

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Tired

• I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot my wife hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Perfect
  • Prove
  • My Wife