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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Nobody has had more awful things written about them than me.
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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.
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The quote-unquote 'description' of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it's about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can't deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.
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Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
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Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
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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.
