Nat Hentoff Quotes

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

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• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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• We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

  

  Wendell H. Ford
  • Problem
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  • Nation

• Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

  

  Radha Mitchell
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• 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

  

  Mara Wilson
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• The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble comedian Jonathan Winters, whose constant rush of words can be like a blizzard: beautiful, maddening, exhausting, and finally beautiful again. But it's not a great film.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
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• Life would be very boring if friends always agreed.

  

  Jack Straw
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• The fact that terrorists have yet again targeted not U.S. or UK troops but an international organization... shows the depth of depravity to which they stoop.

  

  Jack Straw
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• My daughter came to us last night and insisted we contribute in some way to Earth Day.

  

  Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
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• When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
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• If you are lucky as an actor, you are doing a character that really matches where you are in life, or you're doing a character that is not where you are. If it's somewhere in between, you have to use a lot of imagination and a lot of thought.

  

  Scott Cohen
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• Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.

  

  Bill Murray
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• I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
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• Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

  

  Georges Limbour
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• Your vision of your future will help you press forward. Take a few minutes to envision where you want to be in one year or two or five. Then take action to prepare yourselves. People don’t just run a marathon when they decide to do it. They must train daily, slowly building stamina and endurance to run the 26.2-mile distance. So it is with life. It is daily diligence with prayer and scripture study that will help you reach your goals. Your daily decisions will influence generations.

  

  Elaine S. Dalton
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• It's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don't ask for raises have. Because that's good karma. It'll come back. Because somebody's going to know: 'That's the kind of person that I want to trust. That's the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.'

  

  Satya Nadella
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• If someone is trying to stop you from enjoying your life by impeding on yours, and telling you that your life is not the right way, then by all means, I'm the first one to say, "Fight for your rights, fight for who you are and for what you believe in." But you better be the stronger person. Just be aware and attentive to everything that's happening in life and know that there are gonna be people that are going to stop you and going to enjoy stopping you from getting to your goals. But just continue to be strong and outwit them.

  

  Ryan Guzman
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• I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

  

  Nat Hentoff
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  • First Piece