Studs Terkel Quotes
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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 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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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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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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I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.
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It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.
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Short of finding a place on the witness protection programme, you don't get many opportunities to completely reinvent your life. Going to university changes that. Away from home, away from parents, away from anyone who remembers you from school, you can pretend to be far cooler and more experienced than you are.
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I like to be strong.
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Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
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Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.
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It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.
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We need to be more grateful. I think there is no true character without gratitude. It is one of the marks of a real strong character to have a feeling of thanksgiving and gratitude for blessings. We need more of that spirit in our homes, in our daily associations, in the church, everywhere. It doesn't cost anything, and it is so easy to cultivate.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
