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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Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.
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It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.
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President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
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It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.
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I can assure the American people that the men and women of the FBI, starting from the director, all the way on down, are going to follow our oaths and do our jobs.
