Nat Hentoff Quotes
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This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change.
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... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.
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The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
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I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had.
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I never believed that politics had a place in art, that is to say, not in artistic relationships.
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You’re as interesting as you are interested.
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I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.
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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
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Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.
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One can really love only once.
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Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.
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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
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I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.
