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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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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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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The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.
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Have you ever felt that, Ts’an Tsan?—a hunger for knowledge so desperate you begrudge food and sleep, you cannot wait for another dawn to get on to more and more?” Damon nodded. “Yes. Well, I had that fever. I had to know: it was more important than life.
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The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
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Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.
