Studs Terkel Quotes

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

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• I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.

  

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• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

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• I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.

  

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• Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?

  

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• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  

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• Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

  

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• Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

  

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• I accept any challenge.

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Challenge

• I have become a fatalist in life, so I don't try to set goals.

  

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  • Life
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• It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

  

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• The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

  

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• I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

  

  Kenny Cunningham
  • Proud

• One of the U.S. Soccer Federation's points is that it's an honour and a privilege to to play for this country, and it is. But we also represent the entire country, and the idea of liberty and justice isn't afforded to everyone.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Country
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  • Soccer

• It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.

  

  Craig Brown
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• Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

  

  Pippa Evans
  • Up
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• We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

  

  Grace Jones
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Shows

• But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
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  • Time
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• She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.

  

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• I am a socially liberal libertarian who is not for open borders.

  

  Gavin McInnes
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• You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

  

  Cain Velasquez
  • Good
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  • Successful

• You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Talking
  • Atheist
  • Atheism