Terry Gross Quotes
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
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I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.
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I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
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Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
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One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
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I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't miss 'Monday Night Football.' I just don't miss it. I'm lucky. When I stopped playing, I didn't miss it. I feel blessed that it's not been a problem. I have great memories. I feel really lucky.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
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For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.
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I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.
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Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
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After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.
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When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
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I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.
