Studs Terkel Quotes
Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.
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I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
