Nat Hentoff Quotes
The George W. Bush administration would go into court on any kind of a case that they thought might embarrass them and would argue that it was a state secret and the case should not be continued. Barack Obama is doing the same thing, even though he promised not to.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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Is it two? Three? Leave a good tip, Imma blow all my money and don't give two shits.
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You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.
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The meeting between Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin took place in a very warm and friendly atmosphere, ... Our relations are now at a peak and that meets the interests of both nations as well as the interests of regional and international stability.
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I like to make a difference in both places, ... We are a stronger team if I am on the field. I would like to let the guys who are used to be the DH, be the DH.
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How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
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The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.
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There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.
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I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.
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I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
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It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
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The George W. Bush administration would go into court on any kind of a case that they thought might embarrass them and would argue that it was a state secret and the case should not be continued. Barack Obama is doing the same thing, even though he promised not to.
