Studs Terkel Quotes

You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.

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• I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Friends

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Great
  • Home
  • Fake

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Business
  • Me
  • Goal

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Innocent
  • Policy

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Success

• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Line
  • Circle
  • Round

• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Good
  • Job
  • Kids

• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Up
  • Like
  • Wall

• I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Free
  • You
  • Never

• Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Find
  • Partner
  • Musical

• If I had omitted setting down something of that which has appeared to me as clear, so that the knowledge would perish when I perish, as is inevitable, I should have considered that conduct as extremely cowardly with regard to you and everyone who is perplexed.

  

  Maimonides
  • Knowledge

• It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Art
  • Power

• I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Desire
  • Selfish

• That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Job
  • I Love
  • Fruits

• The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • Up
  • Blow
  • Might

• You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.

  

  Studs Terkel
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  • Way
  • Said