Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 May 1912
CountryUnited States of America
friday monday dying
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
differences people want
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
phones government databases
Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
grace want courses
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
couple book mean
Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.
may easy harsh
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
communication
More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.
knowledge thinking years
Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.
library needs life-is
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
spring trickle-down
Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
inquirers
Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.
dare
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
missing argument debate
That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
health community action
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.