Nat Hentoff Quotes
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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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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 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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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'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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I can't think of a single area where Barack Obama is not destructive.
