Studs Terkel Quotes
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
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I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
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I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.
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I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.
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The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
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There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.
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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.
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It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I don't think I even went back to bed.
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People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
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I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.
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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.
