Terry Gross Quotes
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
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The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.
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I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
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It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.
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Bill Nelson has demonstrated that he is a rubber stamp for the Obama administration and he's out of touch with the solution that we need to implement in order to get America back on the right track.
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Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'
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Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.