Studs Terkel Quotes
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.
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I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups-(a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.
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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
