Terry Gross Quotes
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
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We're right on the edge of going into a drought period. If there's no change, we're likely to see a drought this spring.
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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
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All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
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Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.
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I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.
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In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.
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There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.
