Terry Gross Quotes
I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.Terry Gross
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
Aaron Lazar -
I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
Zach Braff -
Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
Yishan Wong -
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
Madchen Amick -
I didn't particularly like being objectified.
L'Wren Scott -
I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
Kary Mullis
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
Tammy Blanchard -
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus -
Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.
Lars Mikkelsen -
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
L. Neil Smith -
As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
Gabrielle Union -
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. Wells
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As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
Taylor Swift -
I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
Edie Sedgwick -
Monks throng like a kennel of pups from disputing with the masters who instruct them whether the run of the wind is one, or one the ocean's waters or one the spark of fire - an illimitable clamour.
Taliesin -
Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
Isaac Asimov -
But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
Quentin Tarantino -
The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.
Joel Salatin
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It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.
Bonnie Hammer -
If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.
George Packer -
I knew I’d gone crazy but I couldn’t explain it to myself. Maybe that’s what happens when you go crazy. You just can’t explain it. Not to yourself. Not to anyone. And the worst part about going crazy is that when you’re not crazy anymore, you just don’t know what to think of yourself.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.
Terry Gross