Nat Hentoff Quotes
I say personally because I am 84 years old, and Barack Obama's is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
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Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies
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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
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Hope is the parent of Faith.
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Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
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Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
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One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.
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Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did."
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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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I think in a few days we will be in a position to convey again the situation to the different governments and probably take a decision soon. There is a lot of work to be done.
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O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep; Thou bearest angels to us in the night, Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep; Love is a pouting child.
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.
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We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
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I say personally because I am 84 years old, and Barack Obama's is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.
