Nat Hentoff Quotes
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
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When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.
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I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ opens the path to what we may become.
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It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.
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You're kidding, right?" Ezra barked. "We're not just going to wait." "I suppose we could help people clean up a bit," "Girl!" Ezra called out. "Big eyes!" Winter turned from what she was looking at. "Are you talking to me?
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I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.
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Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
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Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
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The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.
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It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.
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Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
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Does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?
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I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song
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I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.
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A.J.Muste died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.
