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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Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.
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If I've gotten to a point where people want to see something because I'm in it, I'm grateful and humbled. But having an awareness of that doesn't help me do what I need to do, I think.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.
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Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
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Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.
