Nat Hentoff Quotes
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.
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Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.
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I grow more intense as I age.
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If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.
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I never got a job from a poor person.
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This is something which I think I have been able to communicate to both people I have taught and people that have purchased our work since that time, that they all say, it's so nice to have these pots with us all the time and to eat out of them and be in direct contact with them in our homes.
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I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.
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Coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.
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The law in this country does more to protect Nazis than to bring them to justice.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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I'm getting better at it everyday.
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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
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If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?
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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.
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I went to a lecture of Arthur Koestler once, I never met him.
