Studs Terkel Quotes
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
Quotes to Explore
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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.
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If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
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Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
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When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!
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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
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What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
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Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
