Nat Hentoff Quotes
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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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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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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I can't think of a single area where Barack Obama is not destructive.
