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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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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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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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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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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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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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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
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I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.
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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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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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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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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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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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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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Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
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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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