Terry Gross Quotes
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I love bayou life.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.
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Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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I figured out that my passion is not really for music. My passion is actually for people. So the exploration into different musics of different times has to do with trying to figure out who these people are, what this music represents and what context do we want to give it and what does it mean to us right now.
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If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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There are such wonderful blessings in my life - I have this amazing baby, an amazing family, and I loved X Factor - all these moments of joy, and then these sharp drop-offs. I'd be awake, lying in bed, crying. There's these weird moments of misplaced anger I have.
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I don't really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.
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I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.
