Nat Hentoff Quotes
The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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I don't like allegories.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
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I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
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I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.
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Quite often in negotiations people start out by saying no and then they turn around, ... A few more days and perhaps we'll see some movement.
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To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.
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I'm lucky to have so many supportive, inspirational people in my life.
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The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.
