Studs Terkel Quotes
My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.

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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.
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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have.
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Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.
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My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'
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Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
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I drink a lot of Body Armor - it's a sports drink. It offers great hydration, and it's the best before/after drink for workouts. Orange mango is my favorite. Strawberry banana is a close second.
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My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.