Nat Hentoff Quotes
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.
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I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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I eat a lot of fish to stay healthy.
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Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast.
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If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
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I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
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In markets, you have rich years, and you have less rich years.
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The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.
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In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
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You have an electorate in America that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.
