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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I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.
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I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
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Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.
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I never count my money. I think that's your job.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
