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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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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We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.
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One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.
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Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.
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I'm proud of being a vaudevillian, the last of my line. A lot of people think my entertainment is candy-floss. Well, entertainment is too aggressive these days, all 'in your face.'
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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.
