Studs Terkel Quotes
I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn't.
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For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
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I am not going to come back and play IPL. Have a few plans and may play a few matches here and there.
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The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love.
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Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
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The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.
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When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
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I live right next to a grocery store and I don't know if it's the bachelor in me, but I just go in and shop for what I need for the day. I'm an idiot because I don't shop for the whole week. The check out clerks always crack jokes about the fact that I'm in there sometimes twice a day.
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You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.
