Studs Terkel Quotes
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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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The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.
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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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In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
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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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I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
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I’ve been lucky, so lucky, working with ... Rachel (McAdams) on The Notebook. A big draw for me, when I do a film, is who am I going to be opposite, because there’s only so much I can do on my own.
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The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
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A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
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Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
