Terry Gross Quotes
I thought it was interesting when Bill Clinton said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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In life go straight and turn right.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets... and full skirts. And then we do another look that's '50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I'm not in costume, I dress really normal.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I thought it was interesting when Bill Clinton said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.
