Terry Gross Quotes

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

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• I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dance

• My favorite movie is 'Iron Man.' I tell people that I think it's just as good as 'Dark Knight,' if not better, and people tell me I'm crazy. I really like 'Iron Man.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • People
  • Good
  • Movie

• I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Death
  • Night

• Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • God
  • Clothes
  • Thank God

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I have dangerous bones in my body.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Body
  • Dangerous
  • Bones

• It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Terrorism

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Gold
  • Trade
  • Self-Sufficient

• I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Great
  • Girl

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learning

• Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Family
  • Art
  • Myself

• There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Soul
  • Noble
  • Scenery

• I played soccer, recreationally, in college.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • College
  • Soccer
  • Played

• Necessity has no law.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Law
  • Necessity

• We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Everything
  • Furniture
  • Toys

• On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • See
  • Roads
  • Duck

• There is no ship now that can bear me hence.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Ship
  • Hence

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Job
  • Wonder

• We'll hopefully get this thing wound up in a reasonable time.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Up
  • Time

• Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

  

  P. D. James
  • Live
  • Universe
  • Moral

• Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

  

  Terry Gross
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