Nat Hentoff Quotes

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

Nat Hentoff

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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

Jack Ramsay
- Time
- School
- High
You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

Pat Robertson
- She
- Feeling
- You
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Walter Scott
- May
- History
- Knowledge
I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

Lance Henriksen
- Time
- Great
- Real
Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

Wang Jianlin
- High
- Chinese
- Consumption
It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

Dana Brunetti
- People
- Good
- Attention