Nat Hentoff Quotes

The media has been very bad about informing us about what is going on. They focus on surface things. They do not focus enough on the fact that the Fourth Amendment is on life support and that we need a return to transparency in government.

Nat Hentoff

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• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • War
  • Politics
  • Without

• I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Young
  • Very
  • Gravity

• I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Age
  • Learn

• I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Real
  • Party
  • Clothes

• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Rest
  • France

• Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • She
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Great
  • Job
  • Amazing

• I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Play
  • Day

• So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Country
  • Lost
  • Japan

• It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Music
  • Done
  • Me

• I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Doing

• No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Model
  • Economic
  • Where

• Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Children
  • Religious

• Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Favorite

• I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Want
  • Feels

• I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • People
  • Music
  • Imagination

• All government, of course, is against liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Against

• As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • School
  • Political
  • Government

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• The media has been very bad about informing us about what is going on. They focus on surface things. They do not focus enough on the fact that the Fourth Amendment is on life support and that we need a return to transparency in government.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Support
  • Government
  • Informing