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Studs Terkel Quotes

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

City American Chicago Corrupt Most

My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some just really amazing places.

Life Amazing My Life Places Us Just

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Jean de La Fontaine

Better Optimist Pessimist Worse Much

I used to wear the German shirt with such pride and excitement, but now I don't. I feel unwanted and think that what I have achieved since my international debut in 2009 has been forgotten.

Think Pride Feel Now Unwanted Shirt

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

War Memory American Enough Still

When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me 'Miss Man.' It wasn't until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I'm fabulous.

Girl Man School Fun People Me

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

Life Best Golf Way Coach Player

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

Family Business Music Learn You Way

I signed a contract to fight at UFC 187, so I'm going to fight at UFC 187, whoever it is against. It's the same thing.

Fight Same Contract Against Going

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

Goals Moving Doing You Away Your

The strong ones are the ones who realize that having a bad training day, those types of days are necessary.

Day Training Strong Bad Realize Who

Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.

Money Roads Stupid Parade Gas Your

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

Rick Springfield

Poetry Dark Quiet Kids Those Wrote

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