Nat Hentoff Quotes
Barack Obama's only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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I feel best when I am modestly dressed. It's a choice I make and am proud of; for me, I don't think I have to show skin to be beautiful.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.
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Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
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I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.
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For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.
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I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
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The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.
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That last phrase, the elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type. I had something to learn.
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Barack Obama's only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.
