Nat Hentoff Quotes
I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
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I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
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Obamacare does much more than provide coverage to the previously uninsured - it improves the quality of coverage for all of us. Critical cancer and other health screenings are free. Women and people with disabilities or chronic conditions are no longer charged more - or priced out of the market altogether.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.
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I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.
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Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, "Blimey, and also, what larks.
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Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
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It's a very different show because of the elements that we're putting in. There's so many different styles of comedy, but Mr. Show was unique to Bob and David - two of the most brilliant performers and writers there are. Their show was based on them. Our show is a bit more broad. We have a cast of 7, we have guests. We can be slightly more topical.
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Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.
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Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.
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A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
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They have me in the tabloids all the time without my makeup. My friends always show me. But I don't care. Everybody saw me on 'American Idol' with no makeup so you know what you're getting!
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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you're furnishing it.
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The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
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You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
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Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.
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Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.
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Good leaders don’t wait for official permission to try out a new idea. In any organization, if you go looking for permission, you will inevitably find the one person who thinks his job is to say “No!” It’s easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.
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I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.
