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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
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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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.
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Life is not always good, which is why music exists.
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Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, 'Sir, I'm getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I'm going to suck your neck,' or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.
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I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.
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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.
