Terry Gross Quotes

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

Terry Gross

• Reality
• Risk
• Photograph
• Disappointing

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• I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Computers

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Movies

• Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Government
  • Greek
  • Debate

• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Time
  • Space
  • Present

• Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Memory

• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Language

• I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Speech
  • Roots
  • Grass

• The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Nature
  • Support
  • Revolution

• Satire doesn't effect change.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Change
  • Effect
  • Satire

• There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Eye
  • Nothing

• You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Color

• I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Used

• But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Design

• The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Life
  • Action
  • Spiritual

• Descend, descend, Urania, speak To men in their own tongue! Leave not the breaking heart to break Because thine own is strong. This is the law, in dream and deed, That heaven must walk on earth! O, shine upon the humble creed That holds the heavenly birth.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Dream

• I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • God

• It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Up
  • Long
  • Road

• We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Water

• You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Animal

• A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light,And chuckling cried, 'Now you can't see to bite.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Light

• I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Reality
  • Risk
  • Photograph