Studs Terkel Quotes
Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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Bullies always have another target.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.
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Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
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My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.
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I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.
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I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.
