Studs Terkel Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: 'I do not know...'
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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.
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The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.
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The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
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At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.
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Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.
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I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.
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There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.
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One of the things you will notice about the book of Mark is that if you read through it in one setting, you will be breathing hard at the end. Literally, Mark has set up this book in a way that it is almost like several snapshots of Jesus Christ.
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I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.
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Any representation of a god is ultimately a lie, Silk explained. It may be a convenient lie, and it may even be a reverent one; but it's ultimately false. ... Neither image would be more nearly true than the other, or more true than any other-merely more appropriate.
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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
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There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.
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He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.
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Given the cost of borrowings and the $100 billion in Government reserves, there is no reason for us to borrow. We should review the situation carefully. Besides, borrowings are possible, but we must understand what is more profitable at this point.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
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I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
