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Studs Terkel Inspirational Quotes (64)

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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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I find labels liberal and conservative of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
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There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
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Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
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At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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