Nat Hentoff Quotes
In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this guy is really going to do, not only for them but for the country. If the country is injured, they will be injured. That may be sinking in.

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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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The second thing we have to do is to make sure that all of us think about how we approach our elections and our democracy not only to secure them from vote tampering, but also to make sure that we understand when propaganda is being churned through the system.
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In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this guy is really going to do, not only for them but for the country. If the country is injured, they will be injured. That may be sinking in.