Studs Terkel Quotes
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
Jack Reynor -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles -
The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
Zana Marjanovic -
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
Ogden Nash
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
Kate Hudson -
They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
Ma Jun -
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Ziggy Marley -
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco -
One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
Dan Hill -
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
Kangana Ranaut -
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
Mahmoud Abbas -
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
Anne Rice -
My entire career, everybody says I need to punch somebody.
Blake Griffin -
Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.
Charles B. Rangel -
When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.
Donald Dunn
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Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.
Camilla Gibb -
Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.
Jessica Cutler -
Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.
Chirlane McCray -
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
H. L. Mencken -
I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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