Terry Gross Quotes

The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.

Terry Gross

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• Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • Name
  • Partner

• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Care
  • Gay

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Meal

• Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Career

• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Stuff
  • More
  • Got

• People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Poor
  • Very

• When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Help
  • Party
  • Moving

• I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Love
  • Ideal

• Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Responsibility
  • Generosity

• Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Gentleman

• 'Do you promise you won't hurt me?' asked Arthur. 'You will be safe from all harm for the space of a quarter hour, as measured by this clock,' replied the Old One. 'You are mortal enough that I would not slay you like a wandering cockroach, or a Denizen of the House.' 'Thanks,' said Arthur. 'I think.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • House
  • Space
  • Hurt

• The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.

  

  Tom Rachman
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Facts

• They had the best of the conditions and we worked really hard and outplayed them, it was a top win.

  

  Matt Willis Busted
  • Win
  • Conditions

• Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

  

  Nikki Gemmell
  • Life
  • Home
  • Absorption

• As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

  

  Steve Bisley
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Intention

• The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Past
  • Moral
  • Trouble