Nat Hentoff Quotes
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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My education was very tough.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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When a president speaks, it's to multiple audiences.
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Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
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Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
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There's something bizarrely funny about a guy who doesn't realise he's, in essence, a dog chasing his own tail.
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I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.
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Even though I'm really into fashion, I'm into fashion as a means of creative expression. I dress myself according to my personal creative expression... I try to keep it comfortable. I try to keep it simple.
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Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.
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I met my wife Margot on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.
