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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We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.
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On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.
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Suffering belongs to no language.
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
