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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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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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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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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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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Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.
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Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.
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Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. I regard the present conservation movement as the embryo of such an affirmation.
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Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.
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Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
