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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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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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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It's been a frustrating summer especially as I've done the hard work getting into the 30s but I know I've got to play patiently and straight.
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I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.
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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
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I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but it's really those small things that make the big difference.
Chad Hurley -
I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.
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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.
