Studs Terkel Quotes
But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you've done it that many times.
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The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
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The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.
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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
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Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
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Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I love everybody that I work with, and we have so much fun.
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I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
