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Letter "S" » Studs Terkel Quotes
«One time, ... I was doing 'Studs Place,' my early TV show, and I'm supposed to be quitting cigars and I'm yearning for a smoke and I quote from the 'Odyssey.' I say, I am Ulysses passing the Isle of Circe. Meaning I got these temptations. Truck drivers called in and said they liked the classical reference.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«promising authors in a range of fields who share Studs' fascination with everyday life in America.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«I'm seeing something and I'm not standing silent about it. Humans are pushed out to make room for cars.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«You ask what the score of the game was and they wouldn't know who's playing.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«[American filmmakers ventured into Vietnam during the 1970s and 1980s with mixed results, but by the 1990s the baby boomers seemed increasingly eager to do an end run around their generation's war and all it represented, to embrace that of their fathers and grandfathers. Perhaps because, as an American veteran in the book] 'The Good War': An Oral History of World War II, ... It was the last time that most Americans thought they were innocent and good, without qualifications.»
Author: Studs Terkel
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