Nat Hentoff Quotes
We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to find a way to help the American people. In 1933, he created a relief program known as the New Deal. Two years later, he expanded the New Deal by adding the Works Progress Administration, which was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.
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We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.
