Nat Hentoff Quotes
Madness happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book Speaking Freely: A Memoir - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.Nat Hentoff
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
Oscar Isaac -
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
Laura Prepon -
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming -
I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
FKA twigs -
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
Otto Rank -
That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.
Samantha Mumba
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It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
Randy Quaid -
The Price Is Right can really get me going.
Sam Peckinpah -
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
Vaclav Klaus -
I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'
Dallas Roberts -
I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
Adam Mansbach -
To me, torture would be watching sports on television.
Quentin Tarantino
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Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.
G. E. M. Anscombe -
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
Jennifer Egan -
I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.
Peter Falk -
I am pretty self-indulgent.
Francesca Annis -
I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.
Daniel Pfeiffer -
Madness happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book Speaking Freely: A Memoir - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.
Nat Hentoff