Studs Terkel Quotes
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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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.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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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.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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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.
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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.
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Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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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.
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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.
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The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
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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.
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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.'
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Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
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I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.
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If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
