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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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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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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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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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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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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, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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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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Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
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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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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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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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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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My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.
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