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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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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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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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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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
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I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.
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Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.
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Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.
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The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.
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I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.
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...and Britain was saved, because of a national day of prayer. Ladies and gentlemen, we desperately need our own Miracle of Dunkirk today.
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Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.
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I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.
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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.
