"I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful." — Studs Terkel
"I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful."
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Studs Terkel
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65 Quotes by Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel has 65 quotes on this site.
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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and…
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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…
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers…
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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.…
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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…
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can…
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of…
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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
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More Hopeful Quotes
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one of 436 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
— John Perry Barlow
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
— Amelia Barr
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
— Martha Beck
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The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
— Joe Biden
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I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go…
— Selma Blair
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who…
— Pearl S. Buck
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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that…
— George W. Bush
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house…
— John Ciardi
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Patience is the art of hoping.
— Luc de Clapiers
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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