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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.
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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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You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
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People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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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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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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I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
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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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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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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?
Studs Terkel
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
Studs Terkel
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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