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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Africa
  • Begins

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Own
  • Too Much
  • Admit

• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• 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.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Great
  • Future
  • Energy

• You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Nature
  • Simple
  • Rich

• I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Think
  • Child

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Philosophical
  • Plato

• 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.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Experience
  • Growth

• You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

  

  James Cameron
  • Business

• I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Heart

• The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

  

  Pliny the Elder

• 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.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Prayer

• I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

  

  David Alan Basche
  • Comedy

• I like to explore things.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Explore

• 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.

  

  Bret McKenzie
  • World
  • Free
  • Cool

• 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?

  

  Cherie Blair
  • World
  • Important

• I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.

  

  Don Mattingly
  • Time

• We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the public service. Why should we accept from them a discourse which suggests contempt for us and for the democratic system?

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Why
  • Service

• Having said that, my absorption in nature, its healing powers, and omnipresence in ourselves and the world that surrounds us is, in itself, a form of ultimate worship.

  

  Nick Baker
  • World
  • Nature
  • Worship

• I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • True

• When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.

  

  Erich Schiffmann
  • Thinking
  • Remains
  • Definitions

• 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.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Thinking
  • Despair
  • Realistic