Studs Terkel Quotes
Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wanted to do it. So, it didn't come from me watching my father. I didn't know the sport existed; therefore, I wasn't really interested in it until I saw it.
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I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
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'Is there anyone or anything in this city which can’t be bought?' I said, slipping him a note.'Yeah,' the man said, laughing quietly. 'But I’m not it.'
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A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.
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By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy
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I always knew I was a dust. But I never knew I was also a universe.
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When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand,And I like to take up space just because I can,And I use my dress to wipe up my drink.I care less and less what people think.
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I think the 'sunken place' - that term is what I hear when I'm just casually living my life. People say it around me. Not because they're around me; they're saying it because it articulated a state of mind. Lil Wayne's rapped about it.
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Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.
