Nat Hentoff Quotes
The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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Netflix is amazing 'cause they trust the creator to do their job, and they trust us to do our job. They're really smart and just let us do our thing and deliver a great job.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I like being by myself.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
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If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.
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I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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There is no doubt that pollution contributes to the climate changing around us, but what I refuse to do is support a climate tax bill like Waxman/Markey put in place that would have cost farmers and ranchers in the state, that would cost small business the opportunity to grow, that would increase that bills that families pay, $1,700 a year.
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
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The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.
