Studs Terkel Quotes
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
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At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
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Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
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My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
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I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.
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Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies.
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I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.
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I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing.
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I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
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I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.
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What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.
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Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
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Traditionally in crime fiction, women exist as a bedroom convenience or to screw up in order that the plot may progress. I wanted no part of that.
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
