Studs Terkel Quotes

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

Studs Terkel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HopeCommunityHealthPeopleBook

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Jennifer Armintrout

JusticeDiversitySocial JusticeNeed

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

Andrew Young

WorkTimeGovernmentDemocracyFree

My hope is to become a top player here at Arsenal. A lot of great players have played here. I want to become part of the club's history and to achieve great things here.

Matteo Guendouzi

HopeHistoryGreatGreat ThingsWant

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Jeanne Moreau

AloneBeachSunSolitudeGoEmbrace

I was a skinny 17-year-old.

Roger Rees

Skinny

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Michael Nesmith

KnowledgePeopleLogicMediaYou

I find myself fascinating.

Milan Kundera

MyselfFindFascinating

Manufactured objects testify to who made them; they describe values.

Jonathan Ive

ValuesWhoObjectsMadeDescribe

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.

Chuck Grassley

GovernmentPeopleYouGunsLaws

I was born in Oxford. I grew up in Cascais, Portugal.

Annabelle Wallis

BornUpI Was BornPortugalOxford

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Thomas Carlyle

MenThanOughtLessUnless

AT&T Park, chalk it up. This is a great pitcher's park, great weather. It's a great place to pitch. It's all positive and no negative. You can go out and challenge guys. I've got the confidence to attack the strike zone and not nibble so much.

Tim Hudson

PositiveConfidenceGreatChallenge

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