Studs Terkel Quotes
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Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.
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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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All actors are insecure. And I've got my insecurities, which is why I go to the gym all the time.
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Before the storm comes the calm. Hope you can take the heat like LeBron
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If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
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I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.
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Understanding what the framers meant can help us. But alone it cannot be enough.
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There's a slight problem with the majority counsel's epiphany as it has been passed down to the managers and then to you.
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Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.
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I think I stand where that man stands.
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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
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Effort is a measure of a Man.
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
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You couldn't have a 21-, 22-year-old frat guy coming in, looking for love. That's not who Rachel's going to end up with.
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I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
