Terry Gross Quotes
"The Prince Of Tides" is a lot about my mother - what my mother would do after Dad would hit one of the kids or hit two of the kids, hit all the kids, hit her, she would usually get in the car. We'd drive out. She would say, I'm going to divorce him. I'm never going back.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
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Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.
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My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
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It was a long time ago: I was 13, and my dad actually sent photos to two different agencies of all of my family, and I had no idea.
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When it comes to fighting for citizenship that many people take for granted, there isn't anyone I would not talk to. When it comes to immigration, there isn't any question I will not answer.
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Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
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"The Prince Of Tides" is a lot about my mother - what my mother would do after Dad would hit one of the kids or hit two of the kids, hit all the kids, hit her, she would usually get in the car. We'd drive out. She would say, I'm going to divorce him. I'm never going back.
