Studs Terkel Quotes
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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I think, when I was 25, nobody in the world knew who I was.
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Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
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It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been maligned by astronomers. It's always the one with all the question marks in the back of the textbook in the table. I think children identify with it because it's smaller, kind of cute.
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The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
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Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
