Nat Hentoff Quotes
I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday nights, the editors would cut out - literally cut out passages, sometimes whole paragraphs, of some of the writers that might possibly offend blacks, lesbians, gays, radicals. And I wrote a couple of columns about that. And they're - of course, they were annoyed that I had written about it, but, I mean, it - another example - and my wife Margot always also conjured that.
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Literature invents its own rules.
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I am not born to just become an actor.
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If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
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If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.
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I never said I was the King Of Rock'n' Roll. I said simply that I'm the best
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Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.
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Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?
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Everyone says that looks don't matter, age doesn't matter, money doesn't matter. But i never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who's broke.
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His breath is so bad why every time he smokes he blows onion rings.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.
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Rotten wood cannot be carved.
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At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.
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I just want to hear something I haven't heard before.
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As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.
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You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
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I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday nights, the editors would cut out - literally cut out passages, sometimes whole paragraphs, of some of the writers that might possibly offend blacks, lesbians, gays, radicals. And I wrote a couple of columns about that. And they're - of course, they were annoyed that I had written about it, but, I mean, it - another example - and my wife Margot always also conjured that.
