Terry Gross Quotes
Dad mistook - for some reason unbeknownst to me - he mistook his family for a platoon of Marines. I mean, he - the exact same thing he brought to the disciplining of a squadron, a battalion, a platoon, he brought to the disciplining of his children. He ran the house - he had Saturday morning inspections for us, he had white-glove inspections for us as kids.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, 'As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.'
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Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
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Cuando ya nada me quede, no pediré más nada.
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As I see it, tech in Africa 1.0 was the mobile-phone boom, and version 2.0 was about new apps developed in response to local needs. Tech in Africa 3.0 should be about those who are successful in transforming the chatter into real opportunities.
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To the credit of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, people have been expelled or marginalized. Pat Buchanan in the '90s. Ron Paul, Rand Paul in the first decade of this century. Bill Buckley famously expelled the Birchers in 1964. It's been a movement that's tried to maintain its boundaries.
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I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.
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I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.
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The first rule of influence is that there isn't any. The second rule of influence is that it is everywhere.
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I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced.
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It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
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Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.
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Dad mistook - for some reason unbeknownst to me - he mistook his family for a platoon of Marines. I mean, he - the exact same thing he brought to the disciplining of a squadron, a battalion, a platoon, he brought to the disciplining of his children. He ran the house - he had Saturday morning inspections for us, he had white-glove inspections for us as kids.
