Nat Hentoff Quotes
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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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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When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.
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The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes.
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Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.
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I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.
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Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
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I met my wife Margot on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.
