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.
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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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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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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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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets – perhaps about 30% of them are planet – builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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Nothing is easy, and as far as my modelling career goes, the path to the top has been long and difficult, but that's what makes it special. I always look back to remind myself where I've come from.
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I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.
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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
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You want to invent new ideas, not rules
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If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
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Sex in its natural place is like the signature at the end of a letter. Written on its own, it is less than nothing. Signatures are easy to sign, good letters far more difficult.
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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.
