Nat Hentoff Quotes

There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of Will Shawn.

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• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Hurt
  • Operation
  • Judaism

• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Good
  • Family
  • Interesting

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Period
  • Fans
  • Blessing

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Government

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Girl
  • End

• I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Think
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• I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Believe
  • Political
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• They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

  

  Iggy Azalea
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• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
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• My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

  

  James Hillman
  • Children
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• If Americans will face the truth, our nation can be turned around and can be saved from the evils and the destruction that have fallen upon every other nation that has turned its back on God.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • God
  • Truth

• I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Job
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• The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.

  

  William P. Young
  • Heart
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• Everyone talks about discovery, but I really believe that great content finds its audience.

  

  Mitch Lasky
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• If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • House
  • You
  • Risk

• The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

  

  Ali Babacan
  • Small

• There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much benignly misguided as they are intentionally and willfully ignorant of the facts of reproduction. That lends itself very well to them being ideologically driven and carrying out agendas that, if they were to be really honest about the facts, would be a tougher sell.

  

  Willie Parker
  • People
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• There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of Will Shawn.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Dress