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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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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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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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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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 think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
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I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.
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All men of action are dreamers.
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I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.
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Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.
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Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.
