Nat Hentoff Quotes

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

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• Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Work
  • Black
  • Funny

• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Best
  • Made
  • Did

• I do not consider myself beautiful.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Consider

• It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • True
  • Numbers
  • Comfortable

• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• Producing should be a creative responsibility.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Creative

• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Past
  • Present
  • Forever

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Learn
  • Show
  • Curiosity

• Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Old

• All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

  

  Nas
  • Important
  • Help
  • Single

• You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • People
  • See
  • Scary

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Art

• Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.

  

  Jack Black
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Bad

• If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.

  

  Anu Garg
  • English

• You put a disk here and then you put another disk that is a triangle at the other end and then you balance them on your finger and keep on adding. I don't use rectangles - they stop. You can use them; I have at times, but only when I want to block, to constipate movement.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Stop
  • Balance

• Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • People
  • Good
  • Community

• Most people seem to be interested in turning their dreams into reality. Then there are those who turn reality into dreams. I belong to the latter group.

  

  Allen Say
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • Turning

• I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • People
  • Believe
  • Leadership

• When every new football season starts, we get all excited about the Browns. But no matter how bad they do, no matter how much they say they're rebuilding, they always have the support of that town behind them. No matter what, Cleveland is always behind the Browns, and we always root for them. One of these days, it's going to pay off!

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Bad
  • Support
  • Football

• I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

  

  O. T. Fagbenle
  • Art

• After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.

  

  Clive Cussler
  • Kids

• Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Song
  • Pro-life