Nina Totenberg Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
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I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.
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If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
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The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.
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I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.
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Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
