Nat Hentoff Quotes
My contact with Cato was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
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The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process, it is going to continue to do so with impunity.
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My contact with Cato was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.
