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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A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'
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'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.
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The Democratic Party has to be run by progressives... because we can't let another monster like Donald Trump win again... even if we seem impolite in our fight back against him.
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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
