#v

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#always #am #because #i #i am

As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#community #couple #definitely #drivers #drove

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.' ↗

— Studs Terkel

#any #day #doing #going #good

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#heard #make #peace #silence #subject

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white? ↗

— Studs Terkel

#black #black or white #books #first #first time

What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#because #character #crew #fight #guy

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#brief #could #count #even #important

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#despair #easiest #easiest thing #good #hope

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#albert einstein #always #because #contradict #dares

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#born #course #die #eventually #happens