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Inspirational Quotes by Studs Terkel
- People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
- I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
- I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
- I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
- I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
- I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
- I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
- My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat.
- Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.
- Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
- Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
- 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…
- So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.
- An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
- I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.
- I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
- Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
- More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.
- Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph
- Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
- Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento