Terry Gross Quotes
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
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Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
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When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
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If you love animals, don't eat them.
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We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.
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Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.
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You guys ready to do this?
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I make the girls jump like I'm Kris Kross
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Parental neglect even in intact families, can have a shattering effect on how daughters- even those with loving mothers- feel about men.
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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
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Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.
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The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.
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The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.
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Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
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I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.
