#part

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.' ↗

— Studs Terkel

#democratic #each #hear #i #i think

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#activist #could #democratic #democratic society #does

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

#biologically #book #community #community action #happens

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#generous #great #great extent #important #important people

There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#between #circle #departure #difference #eccentric

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall. ↗

— Randall Terry

#commandments #depart #fall #foundation #free

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#apart #art #being #far #going

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#consensus #i #mean #party #people

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character. ↗

— John Thaw

#great #great character #grow #like #morse

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#because #character #charlize theron #films #guess