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.
Lady Gregory
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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.
Baba Kalyani
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta
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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.
Dana Carvey
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
Kate Reardon
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
Abbas Kiarostami
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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.
Ma Jun
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
Victor Hugo
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
Mae Jemison
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
Rafael Nadal
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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.
Pat Metheny
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
Barry Ritholtz
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Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.
Edwidge Danticat
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The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.
Billy Kennedy
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
Gary Lineker
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Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?
Steven John Wilson Bass Communion
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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.
Nat Hentoff