Studs Terkel Quotes

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

Studs Terkel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 16, 1912 - October 31, 2008

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I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

Joely Fisher

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I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!

Jennie Garth

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What is crucial is there be laws.

Andre Weil

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There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

Jeff Buckley

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I'm terrified of having to go back to a day job. And that's why I'm training like a man possessed. Because I want to keep winning.

Michael Bisping

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I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

Steven Klein

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I love caper films.

Steven Soderbergh

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I live on having a challenge when the line is really thin. I like it the most when you have no clue what is going to happen.

Robin Van Persie

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Conductors are performers.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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Truth is a big concept.

Lukas Foss

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I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

Clive Barker

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Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

William Henry Hudson

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