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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Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
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I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.
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Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.
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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.
