Terry Gross Quotes
When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.
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I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak to a group of people and create them as loyalists.
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
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This is where the block chain is most useful and revolutionary: It helps us to overcome the problem of mutual trust in exchange, which will, in turn, make many of our modern central institutions unnecessary.
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When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.
