Studs Terkel Quotes
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Quotes to Explore
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
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There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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I definitely think the European weather has more of a factor than the European clay. I think the European weather changes from week to week, I mean, last year it was sunny and hot and this week it's kind of playing tricks on us a little bit. I definitely think that is a factor.
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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
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There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.
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I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
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Teach hope to all, despair to none.
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Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
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While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.
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I love to live in the past, with a little hope for the future...
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People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
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As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.
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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
