Terry Gross Quotes

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

Terry Gross

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There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

Jimmy Iovine

CultureYouTrainStopWayMovement

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

John Byrne

ImprovementSmallRealityFeelBad

My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.

Jenna Bush

JourneyAmazingMeSisterAmerica

Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

Anna D. Shapiro

StoryBetterUnderstandingPowerful

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Michael J. Fox

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I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

Sloane Crosley

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I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

Tom Waits

WrongThingsIllusionsAudioHear

Fighting somebody like Manhoef, who can take anyone out at any point in time - that was a big win for me and one of the best finishes. In that fight, it wasn't looking good for me, but I kept believing in myself and was able to land a big shot, which was huge!

Robbie Lawler

GoodTimeMyselfBestFightWin

I am concerned about the erraticness of the dollar. The dollar is up, the dollar is down. We print a lot of dollars. The dollar gets devalued. That is really the concern. If people think the gold price up and down is a reflection of something wrong with gold, no - I say it is something wrong with the dollar.

Ron Paul

ReflectionI AmPeopleGoldThink

This is the deal: You win the Royal Rumble match, you go to main event WrestleMania. That's the process.

Roman Reigns

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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

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When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.

Mitchell Zuckoff

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