Studs Terkel Quotes
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.Studs Terkel
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.
Malcolm Fraser -
Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
G. Edward Griffin -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
Ralph Steadman -
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 -
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke -
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
Karen Armstrong -
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt -
'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
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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.
Pete Carroll -
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.
Mary Gordon -
Our objective is always to win. Every day, every game, and every competition.
Neymar -
I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.
Patton Oswalt -
But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.
Jeffrey Bernard -
A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
David Grinspoon
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As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
Ann Romney -
Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
J. P. Morgan -
His chutzpah and his imagination in the scams and stings he pulled off were so imaginative and so courageous. Amazing. I loved the fact that he could pull off all of those professions. In a way, he's sort of the anti-hero that you root for, even though you know he's going to have to pay a price and go to jail
Frank Abagnale -
I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
Randall Munroe -
Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.
Cissy Houston -
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Studs Terkel