Studs Terkel Quotes
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
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You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
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I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.
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I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.
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I like to explore things.
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I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.
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Here we are, worrying about whether we're thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat - does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?
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I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking!
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I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
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My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.
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If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
