Studs Terkel Quotes

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

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• There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • You
  • Simple

• I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Dog
  • Webster

• CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Religious

• There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Musicians

• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Men
  • Man
  • Victory

• The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Care
  • Out

• Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Different
  • Book
  • You

• People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Saying
  • Oil

• True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Time
  • Good
  • True

• Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Name
  • Read
  • Speed

• Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.

  

  Patanjali

• If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Up

• I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Confidence
  • Green
  • Blue

• The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.

  

  Claire Forlani
  • People
  • Work

• I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • People
  • Important
  • Political

• I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Time

• However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

  

  Joseph Butler
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Doubt

• How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Stock

• I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • High
  • Fear
  • Stop

• Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Born

• Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Sleep
  • Animal