Studs Terkel Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
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My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.
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I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.
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My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
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So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
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They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
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They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.
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I don't know people who don't say 'boy, the government is working better now.'
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Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.
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Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.
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Imagine if organized religion organized billions of people and trillions of dollars to tackle the challenges that our economic and political systems are afraid or unwilling to tackle—a planet ravaged by unsustainable human behavior and an out-of-control consumptive economy, the growing gap between the rich minority and the poor majority, and the proliferation of weapons of all kinds—including weapons of mass destruction. “Wow,” people frequently say when I propose these possibilities. “If they did that, I might become religious again.” Some quickly add, “But I won’t hold my breath. It’ll never happen.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
