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.Studs Terkel
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
Vanessa Ferlito -
Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Jack Kemp -
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!
A. J. Cook -
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.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
Walter Annenberg -
It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
Nancy Gibbs -
In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
Samantha Stosur -
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
Patricia Heaton -
Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
Walt Mossberg -
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
Taylor Caldwell -
Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
Dan Gable
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
Yoko Ono -
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!
Garik Israelian -
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.
Dambisa Moyo -
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.
Irina Shayk -
I'm pretty easy going, I think.
Beau Mirchoff
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Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
Abraham Lincoln -
Most of the bio men on earth were born to women, so it's pretty ordinary! But I think because I had come from a matriarchy - my father died when I was young, and I only have a sister and a stepsister - when I told my mom and my sister that I was having a boy, they were both like, "That does not compute within our family relation!" It was like, "Girls only here!" Now that all seems very strange to me.
Maggie Nelson -
There's nothing I can do about looking short. I'm born this way. And my face is on the long side so I look even shorter on screen. It's not an issue that can be solved by inserting extra heels into my shoes.
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang -
Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.
Richard Smalley -
I started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn't think it was cool to be working for NPR. I didn't need anything to be cool. I just wanted something to do that would be interesting. It was fun. I didn't think of it as anything else but fun.
Ira Glass -
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
Studs Terkel