Nat Hentoff Quotes
I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
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To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
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First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky. Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmosphere.
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If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.
