Terry Gross Quotes
There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.
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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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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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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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If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.
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In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn't even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.
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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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When the economic orthodoxy can no longer deliver, political turbulence follows. That doesn't mean the left will win, but it means there is an opportunity to be seized.
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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.
