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I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.
Nat Hentoff
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Nat Hentoff
Age: 91 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 10
Died: 2017
Died: January 7
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I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.
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I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal.
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I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.
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[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.
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I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.
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Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
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I think at least two of [my kids] - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.
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[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.
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I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
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[My wife] has some investments and stuff.
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We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.
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[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.
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