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I want a language that speaks the truth.

Studs Terkel

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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
Actor
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Historian
Journalist
Music Journalist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Louis Terkel
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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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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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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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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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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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Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
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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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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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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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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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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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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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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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Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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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 thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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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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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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