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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is…
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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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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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Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a…
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners…
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I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said,…
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
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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…
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer…
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece…
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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
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I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I…
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And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I…
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I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what…
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I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of…
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I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I…
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