Terry Gross Quotes
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.
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When I grew up as a kid, we didn't know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It was widely speculated that planet formation was an incredibly rare event and that it's possible that other planets just don't exist in our galaxy, and it's just this special situation where we happen to have planets around our sun.
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There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover from mistakes.
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We have to start spreading that news - that real men change poopy diapers and coach the soccer team and let their daughters paint toenails all kinds of colours.
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The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
