Studs Terkel Quotes
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
Studs Terkel
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
Wallace Shawn
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
Talulah Riley
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
Tamsin Egerton
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
Ralph Merkle
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I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
Janet Jackson
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
F. Murray Abraham
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If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.
Peter M. Brant
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Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.
Vaclav Havel
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Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.
Allen Lacy
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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