Studs Terkel Quotes
I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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The personal computer can be a virtual device.
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I think I'm a million different faces.
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Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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People are literally tracking everything. People are becoming more empowered and knowing what's going into their body.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
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Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.
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And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.
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I'm not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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Most of my friends in Korea told me it was social suicide. I knew it wasn't going to be easy and I understood the risks going into it, but I just wanted to be authentic and be open from the get-go.
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Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
