Studs Terkel Quotes
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
Yannis Stournaras -
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. Lewis -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
Vidal Sassoon -
I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
Sam Rayburn -
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Nadine Gordimer -
Political correctness kills discussion.
Lars von Trier -
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
Ferdinand Marcos -
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
Randy Pausch -
I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
Tammy Duckworth
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
Patricia Schroeder -
Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Visitor: Monsieur Degas, were there any of Monet's pictures at the Durand-Ruel exhibition?Degas: Why, I met Monet himself there, and I said to him, 'Let me get out of here. Those reflections in the water hurt my eyes!' His pictures were always too draughty for me. If it had been any worse I should have had to turn up my coat collar.
Edgar Degas -
The mistakes of history might be gradually forgotten, but historical truth cannot be forgotten, since forgetting history could lead to the recurrence of the same mistakes.
Ma Ying-jeou -
That Shakespeare wanted Art.
Ben Jonson -
Clarence Darrow's examination of William Jennings Bryan at the 1925 Scopes trial Scopes Trial Day 7
Clarence Darrow
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Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
William Hazlitt -
I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
W. Bruce Cameron -
Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems.
Pete Rozelle -
By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.
Baba Hari Dass -
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
Studs Terkel