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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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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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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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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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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This simple form of repression, of using the method of not letting anyone speak, will never succeed.
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The fact is there are no stories I can tell my friends that will make them feel better. History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.
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Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
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You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
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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.
