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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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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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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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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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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I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
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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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I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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When I go back to Egypt, I call my friend from the airport to buy kushari for us to eat in the car. I pull my hoodie over my head, jump into the car, and then I'm eating it straight away.
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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.
