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.

Terry Gross

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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

Randy Bachman The Guess Who
- Up
- God
- City
There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

P. J. O'Rourke
- World
- Men
- Women
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

Laura Harrier
- Thought
- Weird
- Doing
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.

Tawakkol Karman
- People
- Work
- Woman
Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

Ilyasah Shabazz
- Work
- Change
- Media
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.

Indra Nooyi
- Time
- Thinking
- Singing