Nat Hentoff Quotes
I'm working on "Living the Bill of Rights," and it's about people - well, it starts with Brennan and Douglas as people who not only live the Bill of Rights, but try to shape the reason for that.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
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O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
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He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.
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Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
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I'm working on "Living the Bill of Rights," and it's about people - well, it starts with Brennan and Douglas as people who not only live the Bill of Rights, but try to shape the reason for that.
