Nat Hentoff Quotes
The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet. Barack Obama has done nothing about that.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
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I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.
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The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet. Barack Obama has done nothing about that.
