Terry Gross Quotes
An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.Terry Gross
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
Camille Paglia -
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
Carl Stokes -
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville -
What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
Pat Buchanan -
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Queen Elizabeth II
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
Usher -
He had delusions of adequacy.
Walter Kerr -
I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.
Becky G -
Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
Warren Buffett -
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
Samuel de Champlain -
I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
Yolandi Visser -
Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
N. Robert Hammer -
It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
Barbara Boxer -
Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.
Sabrina Bryan -
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
Wendell Willkie -
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
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13. It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
Ramana Maharshi -
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey -
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Martha Gellhorn -
Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
Saint Augustine -
It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
Gabriela Sabatini -
An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.
Terry Gross