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.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Good
  • Think
  • Challenge

• I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.

  

  Zendaya
  • Way
  • Change
  • Speak

• 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.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Speak
  • Start
  • Blessings

• 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?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Job
  • Child
  • Speak

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• 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!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style
  • Speak
  • Jazz

• 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.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Speak
  • Internet

• Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Speak
  • Walls

• If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Never
  • Speak
  • Quiet

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• 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.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Know
  • Speak

• Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • American
  • Question

• If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Find

• Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Different
  • Speak
  • Doing

• Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Speak
  • Sea
  • Train

• If anyone has the opportunity to work with that woman, jump at it. She is the most generous, most giving director I have ever worked with in my entire life. She is classy. She speaks a dozen difference languages.

  

  Tituss Burgess
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Language

• Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • History
  • Economic
  • Through

• I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

  

  Terry Gross
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