Studs Terkel Quotes
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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I'm not surprised, motherfuckers.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.
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A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
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However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.
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To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
