Terry Gross Quotes

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

Terry Gross

• People
• Meaningful

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Live
  • Hollywood
  • Broadway

• I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Kind
  • Stress
  • Gym

• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Best

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Life
  • Children
  • Parents

• When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • World
  • City
  • Myself

• All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • Audience

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Job
  • Want
  • Try

• I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Start
  • Old
  • Determined

• That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • True
  • Girl
  • Question

• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Suffering

• The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Childhood
  • Idea
  • Creativity

• When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Trust

• I worked on a farm for a little bit.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Little
  • Farm
  • Little Bit

• I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Bad

• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

  

  Maria Montessori
  • Soul

• Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Confidence

• ... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Death
  • Afraid

• The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Country

• Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

  

  Terry Gross
  • People
  • Meaningful