Nat Hentoff Quotes
Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.Nat Hentoff
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
Carli Lloyd -
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino -
A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
Taya Kyle -
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Frances McDormand -
I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
Katey Sagal -
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
Naomie Harris -
I busted my butt all my life building companies.
Wayne Huizenga -
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips -
My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
Sally Pearson -
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
Barry McGuigan -
I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
Vicente del Bosque
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It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.
Katey Sagal -
I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.
Hannibal Buress -
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
Lance Morrow -
My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
Namie Amuro -
The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
Mahatma Gandhi -
Time is a waste of money.
Oscar Wilde
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I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.
Drew Goddard -
When you take the fact that you're loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is.
Philipp Meyer -
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
Oprah Winfrey -
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
Tammy Bruce -
Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.
Dinesh D'Souza -
Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.
Nat Hentoff