Terry Gross Quotes
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
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I'm now a member of a pretty small club.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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I think it's important to have a greater purpose behind modeling. Don't model just because you're pretty and you want to make money. Every girl wants that. You have to stand out from everyone else and on those really hard days, that is really the only thing that will keep you going.
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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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We dont invent our natures. Theyre issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
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I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.
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It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
