Terry Gross Quotes
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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It's funny because before I joined the cast of 'Heroes,' I was an insomniac. I have suffered from insomnia for, like, so long. Now that I'm on the show, seriously - I sleep like a baby. I'm so tired all the time.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
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I went to an art high school in Washington D.C., and I majored in visual art. When I started there, I was horrible - couldn't draw, couldn't sketch, couldn't do anything. I remember at one point I came to terms with the fact that I had to work my ass off to do well and that's exactly what I did. I drew and drew and drew, and it worked - I ended up getting the award for best artist and went on to apply to design school because I loved it so much. I think it really speaks to the idea that you can in fact excel at whatever you put your mind and your heart to.
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But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.
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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
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If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.
