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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For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.
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That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
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I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
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Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
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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.
