Arthur Hertzberg Quotes
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I will keep working hard!
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
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With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.
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Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
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Where the pools are bright and deepWhere the gray trout lies asleep,Up the river and o'er the leaThat's the way for Billy and me.
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I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
