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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I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
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I think one thing we share with my wife is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.
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This killer in Orlando was interviewed by the FBI three times and I'm not going to second guess what career law enforcement professionals do everyday to defend our nation. But we need to look carefully at this. Should we have a broader database? You know, someone comes to the attention of FBI not once but three times, does that suggest that local law enforcement needs to know.c
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FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.
