Studs Terkel Quotes
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
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You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
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I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
