Studs Terkel Quotes
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No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.
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I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.
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Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.
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Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.
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We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
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The Russians train; they do not dare educate.
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You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.
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At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
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Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!
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Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.
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I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
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Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.
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Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.
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We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.
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A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
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Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.
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I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
