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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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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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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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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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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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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Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.
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Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.
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The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
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When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
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Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.
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I'm going straight home after the tour. I'll probably need therapy and counselling after this. Expect a solo album in 2008.
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Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.
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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.
