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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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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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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I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.
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In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
