Nat Hentoff Quotes
I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then interview to Rolling Stones. I follow his career.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
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Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.
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Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.
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Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
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I am so broad and big-structured that even two kilos on me can look like gaining 10 kilos, and losing two kilos can also look like shedding 10 kilos.
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I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent.
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I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then interview to Rolling Stones. I follow his career.
