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.Studs Terkel
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Edgar Wright -
To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
Ted Danson -
I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
Gail Porter -
The purpose of a business is to create customers.
Sam Wyly -
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
I. F. Stone -
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.
Sam Hunt
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
Gabriel Marcel -
I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
J. B. Smoove -
Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
Umberto Eco -
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.
Gail Carson Levine -
When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
L'Wren Scott -
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?'
Finn Wittrock -
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.
Earl Warren -
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
Jack Youngblood -
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
e. e. cummings
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I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
Samuel Larsen -
Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.
Rob Zombie -
Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.
Pam Brown -
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.
Alan Villiers -
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
Studs Terkel