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You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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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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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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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.
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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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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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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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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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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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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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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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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
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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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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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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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