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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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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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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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
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Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.
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It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
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When you find the one thing in your life you believe in above anything else, you owe it to yourself to stand by it—it will never come again, child. And if you believe in it unwaveringly, the world has no other choice but to see it as you do, eventually. For who knows it better than you? Don’t be afraid to take a difficult stand, darling. Find the one thing that matters—everything else will resolve itself.
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Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.
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I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then interview to Rolling Stones. I follow his career.
