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'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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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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Nobody gets excited when they see me. If I put on my wizard outfit and walk around the airport for a couple of hours, I get a couple of puzzled glances.
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You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.
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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
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It is very easy to get people focused on children.
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'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.
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I'm a very laid-back person.
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Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.
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I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.
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You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
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The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.
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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.
