Terry Gross Quotes
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She was pretty and you never expected a pretty woman to be that funny. She didn't care that she was pretty.
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Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps.
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I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where Im going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.
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You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.
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He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
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Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.
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There is a randomness to this ballet of death. This is the order of things. This is the secret to understanding the universe. Everything happens in an instant. Normalcy. And then apocalypse.
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I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.
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The fact that DPM works well with other Microsoft products that customers commonly use is a big differentiator.
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You try to make them comfortable so they can do what they're best at, and make them shine. You always want to make an actor shine. I'm of the mind that there's no one - you, your mother, anyone, that if in the right place at the right time in the right context, couldn't shine in a movie. And so if it means, "Oh, I have to make them uncomfortable," then whatever it takes to get what I need up onscreen. It's all in the service of the story.
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Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
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My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.
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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.
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Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
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One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
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Hillary Clinton has been very guarded with the press.
