Nat Hentoff Quotes
Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
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The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
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My job means I work late.
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I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.
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The thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
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I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
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A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.
