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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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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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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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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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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I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
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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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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream
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We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.
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Let's say Donald Trump wins. Is Congress going to let him build a wall on the Mexican border? I don't think so.
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I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.
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For me space rock is something that takes you out of yourself and out of your normal realm. And if space happens to be that inner space or outer space it's a very personal thing. I think that mantra is space music. I think that Native American tribal drumming is space music. Anything that allows you to go inward to go outward and to move within a space that is not normal to your reality.
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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.
