Studs Terkel Quotes
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.
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'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer.' (talking about the United States State Department) 2
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Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
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You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.
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I don't like kitten heels. I just don't think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.
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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
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There's certain people you want to see in comedies; there's certain people you just want to see in dramas. Not that there aren't individuals who do both, but it's not everyone.
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The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
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The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.
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I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.
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When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
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It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.
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'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.
