Terry Gross Quotes
So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
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Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
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To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.'
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The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
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When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
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You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.
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So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.
