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Studs Terkel
(American Journalist)

Date of Birth:: May 16, 1912
Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 21
Times favorited:: 2

Louis "Studs" Terkel is an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster.

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All quotes by Studs Terkel

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“Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“promising authors in a range of fields who share Studs' fascination with everyday life in America.”

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“I'm seeing something and I'm not standing silent about it. Humans are pushed out to make room for cars.”

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“If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.”

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“You ask what the score of the game was and they wouldn't know who's playing.”

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“And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.”

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“[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.”

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“Suddenly the sirens are sounding all over Chicago. At the time, the Cold War was going on between us and Russia, and there was great fear through the air. And when people heard the sirens, old women had heart attacks and kids ran under beds because that's what they were taught in school. I remember that moment most, the sirens going on and people not celebrating the Sox but hurrying to the grocery store to store up on stuff for the next month of siege, for [they believed] the Russians were coming.”

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