Terry Gross Quotes
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Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.
Gail Dines
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There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.
Geoffrey Nunberg
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Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.
Russell Peters
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Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the stomachs of astonished gastronomes. Bouillabaisse is one of those classic dishes whose glory has encircled the world, and the miracle consists of this: there are as many bouillabaisses as there are good chefs or cordon bleus. Each brings to his own version his special touch.
Curnonsky
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I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.
Michael Owen Bruce
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When you aren't working, you really want to emulate the real version of yourself.
Erin Wasson
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If there is enough space on radio for Busted and McFly, who are basically the same band, or for 50,000 versions of Stereophonics and Coldplay, there must be enough room for all of us.
Estelle
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To me, to be political means you associate your work with a larger number of people’s living conditions, and that includes both mental and physical conditions. And you try to use your work to affect the situation.
Ai Weiwei
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I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
Marianne Williamson
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If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.
Kathy Calvin
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Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.
John Ridley
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It is a happy day when we come to know that with God's help, nothing is impossible for us.
Marvin J. Ashton
