Nat Hentoff Quotes
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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For me, 'like' as a word is hundred times more powerful than love. Love is old; it's just another word for need. It's just like saying you want something. It is really important to like the person, to know the person.
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David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow.
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.
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Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.
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Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.
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I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home, we will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.
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[John F.Kennedy] liked fresh company, new people to come visit and then leave. ... I think he liked the protection of numbers too.
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I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.
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Work on your strong points because they are what made you.
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I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
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Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.
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I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'
