Nat Hentoff Quotes
Throughout Barack Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
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Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician's impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark.
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Love is so simple.
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I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.
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I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.
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Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.
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Throughout Barack Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.
