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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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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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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Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.
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To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.
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I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.'
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The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.
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Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.
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You can't rest on any laurels if they exist, and happily there are some from the franchise, but you have to always expand your own horizon both creatively and technically as well.
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
