Terry Gross Quotes
Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
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The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
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I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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Betting that markets will be 'volatile' is like betting the weather will be partly cloudy. It's a smart-sounding strategy that doesn't mean much.
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Business is other people's money.
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My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.
