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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.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«I don't recognize my own neighborhood.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«The pharaohs didn't lift a finger. That's king and queen. Mrs. Pharaoh's fingernails were as immaculately manicured as Elizabeth Taylor's in Cleopatra. Who built the pyramids? Anonymous slaves down through the centuries.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«Aug. 9, the day of the operation, you know what day that was? Sixty years to the day the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Amazing... the human race designs something like that, something that kills, and then the same human race designs things to save human life.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«I originally said, `No,' ... I was feeling not so much scared as lost. There was a one in four chance that I wouldn't make it.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«His ingenuity and his faith in the good taste of people are what made WFMT. He believed the public ? and by that he meant ordinary people ? deserved the best in broadcasting.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«His ingenuity and his faith in the good taste of people are what made WFMT, ... He believed the public--and by that he meant ordinary people--deserved the best in broadcasting.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«Not because of its commercial value, but the name of Field's represents our past. The past is being erased.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«Not because of its commercial value, but the name of Field's represents our past, ... The past is being erased.»
Author: Studs Terkel
«Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.»
Author: Studs Terkel
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