Terry Gross Quotes
You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into my adult life, what am I not doing as a husband? What am I not doing as a father? The whole thing started unraveling with me that once I kept it up close to the chest, I could hold it all in, but once I started letting it out, it all started coming out.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
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Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
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Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
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Feminism is nothing but equality, and actually, feminism benefits men because it liberates us and it releases us from many stigmas imposed by the macho culture on us as well. So if more of us could understand that it's nothing but equality, I think many agendas in terms of equality would have advanced quicker because it really helps us as well.
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If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.
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I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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I've never read one book about my father.
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The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.
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It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.
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I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of turns out to come true, or sometimes it already was true.
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You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into my adult life, what am I not doing as a husband? What am I not doing as a father? The whole thing started unraveling with me that once I kept it up close to the chest, I could hold it all in, but once I started letting it out, it all started coming out.
