Nat Hentoff Quotes
Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of Barack Obama are now beginning to question, if I may use their words, their "deity."
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
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The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.
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Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.
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These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
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The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'
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Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of Barack Obama are now beginning to question, if I may use their words, their "deity."
