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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I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they build and bond with one another.
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I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
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A picture is the expression of an impression
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I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
