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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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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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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I think the best way to listen to my music is through recording. I would love to be one of those artists where you can go into a coffee shop and watch people pass by and then my music is in their ears. Not necessarily a sensory deprivation thing, but that's cool too. Unfortunately in order to focus on nobody else, you would probably have to go into a dark room and just sit there and listen to it.
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I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
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But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
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I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.
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I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.
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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.
