Studs Terkel Quotes

We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

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• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Write

• I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Great
  • Win
  • Three

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Natural
  • Wonderful
  • Richness

• I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Guy

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Gossip

• You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Want
  • Car
  • Customer

• War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • War
  • Understand
  • Tomorrow

• I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • World
  • Research
  • Finance

• Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Work
  • You

• Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • She
  • Confidence
  • Struggle

• Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Now
  • Going
  • Eyelashes

• 2014 was physically a tough year because I injured my knee, and you know how that goes with your emotions and the mentality.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Year
  • Emotions
  • Tough

• If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

  

  Anne Beatts
  • Criticism

• Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Christianity
  • Rebellion
  • Human Failure

• In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Good
  • Job
  • Together

• Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
  • Fortune

• When I try to write love, it only turns into horror. Thinking about it with a clear head, feeling such deep emotions to some other person you don't even know is truly a terrifying thingI wonder if love isn't a manifestation of madness in some way.

  

  Gen Urobuchi
  • Wonder
  • Person
  • Emotions

• Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

  

  Eleanor Duckworth
  • Job
  • Knowledge
  • Ideas

• We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Born
  • Courses
  • Realist