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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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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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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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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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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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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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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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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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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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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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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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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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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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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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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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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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