Studs Terkel Quotes

The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

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• My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Children
  • Why
  • American

• I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Responsible
  • Cricket
  • Indian

• Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Help
  • House
  • Friend

• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Way
  • Regret
  • Act

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • End

• I don't like violence.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Violence

• Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry - it's the perfect combination of formal and punky.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Rock

• It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Done
  • Together
  • Human

• Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Faith
  • Stop
  • Moving

• Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Future
  • Choices

• If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Different
  • School
  • Money

• Everybody's always looking for the person they're better than

  

  Amy Sarig King

• I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Life
  • Money
  • Beautiful

• The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

  

  B. Traven
  • Important
  • Earth
  • Organization

• The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

  

  Odell Shepard
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Salvation

• Life is Time Management and then you're dead.

  

  V. Vale Blue Cheer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Management

• If I start thinking about who's on the opposing team and I've got to play well against that team, then the next night when we play against guys without the big names, then you don't play so well. So you try and keep a consistent approach.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Team

• Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting that, and also accepting what I'm into sexually, what sexually arouses me. So I was making these images not necessarily knowing what they were about, but just putting it out there - that mode of thinking or consideration of my own desires, and also the much larger conversation around images that deal with ideas of sexuality and how those images are distributed and then accepted or understood by whoever is viewing those images.

  

  Wardell Milan
  • Understanding
  • Photograph
  • Accepted

• Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Drops Of Water

• The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Jobs
  • Issues
  • Pockets