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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
Actor
Author
Historian
Journalist
Music Journalist
Poet Lawyer
Radio Personality
Writer
New York City
New York
Louis Terkel
Communications
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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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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
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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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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
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You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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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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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
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On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.
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The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things. The battle appears to be forever joined. The armies, ignorant and enlightened, clash by day as well as night. Chicago is America's dream, writ large. And flamboyantly.
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I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.
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When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, How come you're just a waitress? I say, Don't you think you deserve being served by me?
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