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.
Nat Hentoff
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
Samuel Goldwyn
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.
J. Courtney Sullivan
I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
Mahesh Babu
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.
Barry Ritholtz
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.
Eddie Marsan
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
Warren Zevon
Is it two? Three? Leave a good tip, Imma blow all my money and don't give two shits.
Nicki Minaj
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.
Joey Bishop
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.
Igor Ivanov
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.
Gary Sheffield
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
Andrei Codrescu
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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.
Umberto Eco
There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.
Barack Obama
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
Oscar Wilde
Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.
Carrie Brownstein
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
The public expects and deserves the protection that effective government oversight provides. Until the Bush administration shows it is willing to do the job, however, it appears the public will have to rely on state regulators and lawmakers to protect its interests.
Eliot Spitzer
