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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Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.
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Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.
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I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.
