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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
Actor
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Journalist
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New York City
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Louis Terkel
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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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The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.
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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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For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
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I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat. I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.
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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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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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When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.
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I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
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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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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
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All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
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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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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
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