Nat Hentoff Quotes
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.
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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.
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Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
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Excellent in every way around the glens The two skilful ones make inquiries
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
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For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
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I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.
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Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.
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For me, each day begins and ends with wanting to learn a little more about the secrets of spider silk.
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If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.
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To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
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However, I never thought that George W. Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."
