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.Nat Hentoff
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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.
Rachel Sklar -
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor -
As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
Natalie Gulbis -
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!
R. Lee Ermey -
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken -
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
Samantha Bee
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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.
Imelda May -
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.
Flume -
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.
Adam Davidson -
I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
BeBe Winans -
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
Park Geun-hye -
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Samuel Butler -
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
Beau Bridges -
Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
Idina Menzel -
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W. Clement Stone -
The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
Felix Frankfurter -
The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance... How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?
Pat Buchanan
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Cate Blanchett. Judi Dench. Helen Mirren. Everything about them. Even their fashion choices. They're so with it and cool and women I admire. They take chances. They're chameleons. Everything that they do. They're also amazing mothers.
Lily Collins -
In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.
Amy Heckerling -
But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.
Albert Camus -
It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.
Charles Kimbrough -
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.
Nat Hentoff