Studs Terkel Quotes

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

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• Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Find
  • Solutions

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • History
  • Mistake
  • United

• 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.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Fear

• I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Think
  • Interesting

• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Dwell

• 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.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Great
  • Live
  • Listening

• 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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• 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.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Own

• My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.

  

  Zendaya
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Date

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• 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.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • School
  • Why
  • Home

• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Never
  • Look

• Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Knowledge
  • Day
  • Practice

• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Learning
  • Tombstone
  • Diploma

• '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?''

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Money
  • Heart

• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• 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.

  

  Pete Carroll
  • Power
  • Help
  • Exercise

• If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me.

  

  Henrik Lundqvist
  • Thanks
  • Fit
  • Proportion

• I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Religion

• The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody

  

  Stan Getz
  • Melody
  • Saxophone

• I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Past
  • Hero
  • Praise