Studs Terkel Quotes
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.
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My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
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I could give you a list a mile long of the homosexuals in the arts but there's no point in making a big tzimis about a relatively harmless and cool state of affairs - Each man to his own tastes.
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Todo se había quedado sin engaño, esa vez. Y esa vez tuve miedo de todo.
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There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'
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I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.
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The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.
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Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
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I love yoga. There's a lot of stretching involved, which helps with my flexibility and injury prevention. Vinyasa is my favorite as a recovery tool and for me to continue having my legs feel good.
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I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.
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I wish I was super-serious, anguished. I see those actors, and I am like, 'Oh God, they are so cool, and they seem so interesting.' I don't take acting that seriously.
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There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
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I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
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Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.
