Studs Terkel Quotes
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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.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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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.
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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.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
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You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.
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I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
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That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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No one who has been martyred by the Jews should remain unknown. And no one who has been martyred by the Jews will remain unavenged.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
