Studs Terkel Quotes
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Quotes to Explore
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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'Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?''
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The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
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Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.
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At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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The marathon can humble you.
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I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film.
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
