Wanted Quotes by Nat Hentoff

10 Wanted quotes by Nat Hentoff

If you’ve ever felt the pull of a label or a longing, these ten lines from Nat Hentoff give a quick, thoughtful look at what it means to be wanted.

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I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

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[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

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[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

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Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.

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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…

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After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that 'Bill Shawn will…

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A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted…

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I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research.…

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If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more…

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There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in…

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Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

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[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.

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That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are…

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I read like everybody - like every other writer.

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Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be your president.

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