Terry Gross quote: "I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions."

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
TERRY GROSS

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
TERRY GROSS

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and wh...
TERRY GROSS

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content my...
TERRY GROSS

The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person...
TERRY GROSS

We don't want commercial relations. We don't need that clientele.
TERRY GROSS

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.
TERRY GROSS

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.
TERRY GROSS

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a p...
TERRY GROSS

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and wh...
TERRY GROSS

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
TERRY GROSS

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. ...
TERRY GROSS

I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcoming...
TERRY GROSS

If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on...
LANCE GROSS

I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's i...
LANCE GROSS

Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it se...
LANCE GROSS

I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It does...
LANCE GROSS

I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm com...
LANCE GROSS

I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other fil...
LANCE GROSS

I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an o...
LANCE GROSS

My parents always taught me never to take anything for granted because it can be taken away from you...
LANCE GROSS

I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes tha...
LANCE GROSS

It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, s...
LANCE GROSS

I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
LANCE GROSS

I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.
LANCE GROSS

For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
LANCE GROSS

I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being...
LANCE GROSS

I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror t...
LANCE GROSS

I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and Go...
LANCE GROSS

It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some...
LANCE GROSS

If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've...
LANCE GROSS

I love everyone that supports me, and things can get wild at times, but my parents raised me to be g...
LANCE GROSS

It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with ne...
LANCE GROSS

When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electr...
DAVID GROSS

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterfli...
BILL GROSS

Every part of the museum they go into, people will find something to hold their interest.
ALAN GROSS

At this point, most of what we're doing is just following up with leads and contacts that we happen ...
ALAN GROSS

It's a long process to develop these kinds of exhibits.
ALAN GROSS

I think they use statistics and figures that are misleading, and sometimes they are just plain erron...
ALAN GROSS

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened t...
ANDREW GROSS

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysi...
BILL GROSS

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds...
BILL GROSS

Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchic...
JACQUELYN GROSS

We are actively reaching out to Eclipse developers. We think Eclipse is the way things are trending.
ADAM GROSS

We're really betting on two horses: We will continue to support Visual Studio.Net, and in the non-.N...
ADAM GROSS

Developers now have the ability to use the power and sophistication of Eclipse to build on-demand ap...
ADAM GROSS

Pervasive is an innovative solution for enabling CDI projects, and allows companies to successfully ...
ADAM GROSS

As the momentum for on-demand solutions continues to grow, salesforce.com customers are looking for ...
ADAM GROSS

At first, 'Family Ties' seemed to just be a wonderful project of its time. These were the Re...
MICHAEL GROSS

I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first a...
LANCE GROSS

In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other si...
BILL GROSS

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a perce...
BILL GROSS

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the...
ANDREW GROSS

I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'...
LANCE GROSS

the real power ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ is not the elected authorities.
ANDREAS GROSS

the real power ... is not the elected authorities.
ANDREAS GROSS

Real power... is based on a legitimacy that is not democratic.
ANDREAS GROSS

We face a very weak democratic power and a very strong real power and this real power is out of cont...
ANDREAS GROSS

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity ...
BILL GROSS

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derive...
DAVID GROSS

I would admit I'm an introvert. I don't know why introverts have to apologize.
BILL GROSS

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.
ROBIN GROSS

Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm ...
LANCE GROSS

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and...
ANDREW GROSS

Everyone at Adam & Eve is just elated with the success of Pirates.
BRIAN GROSS

By the time the final budget's done, we may have lost six months in the current year; and by the tim...
BRIAN GROSS

We could be continuing until March 2003 under this year's budget.
BRIAN GROSS

This is a good place to work, no question about it. You get good wages and the benefits are great. W...
BRIAN GROSS

This is better than we anticipated.
BRIAN GROSS

Medical was far and away the No. 1 issue for me,
BRIAN GROSS

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor s...
BILL GROSS

It is in the best interest of the company, its employees and investors, that we not proceed with the...
BILL GROSS

When you have kidney stones, you don't give much of a damn about the view,
BILL GROSS

if those [people] are holders of government bonds based upon a benign outlook for inflation, they ha...
BILL GROSS

This works because merchants have a high cost of customer acquisition, and we lower it, ... We bring...
BILL GROSS

[Beyond that, some Treasury market participants worry that with recovery, inflation will pick up. In...
BILL GROSS

[Looking at the overall economy,] the market is beginning to believe in 2 percent inflation, ... We ...
BILL GROSS

Many so-called emerging markets have long since emerged. Russia now has an investment-grade credit r...
BILL GROSS

Too much debt, geopolitical risk and several bubbles have created a very unstable environment which ...
BILL GROSS

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates hav...
BILL GROSS

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
DAVID GROSS

Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for '...
BILL GROSS

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especia...
DAVID GROSS

In a small glimpse, that's been a little bit of my season. I've hit several like that. Hopefully, ne...
GABE GROSS

Over and over, these men cry out against the weight of so many losses-not just a lover dead, but fri...
JANE GROSS

Fair use is always going to be a gray area, and it should be. We need to allow for things we can'...
ROBIN GROSS

When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wi...
MICHAEL GROSS

It's truly amazing when you think about it. A sellout at Madison Square Garden would be perceived as...
DARYL GROSS

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get o...
BILL GROSS

It was just a loud, thunderous noise. As soon as the explosion came, it seemed like a hurricane came...
JEFF GROSS

Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which ...
DAVID GROSS

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.
DAVID GROSS

The glowing magma emerges like redhot toothpaste from a long, wide crack and then crawls into the Pa...
ROBERT GROSS

I just haven't been able to really create the same look with paint that I do with the pen and ink.
ROBERT GROSS

It sort of looks like a place with the background filled in by buildings. And a lot of people say th...
ROBERT GROSS

It's a great fear of many people that this is the logical result of some of the policies they have f...
ROBERT GROSS

You can hear it's pretty active.
ROBERT GROSS

You can't say the fence is not intrusive,
ROBERT GROSS

What we tend to read in the newspaper is that this is a political conflict, ... But it has become an...
ROBERT GROSS

Volcanoes are one way Earth gives birth to itself.
ROBERT GROSS

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
BILL GROSS

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental su...
DAVID GROSS

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced...
BILL GROSS

the real power is not the elected authorities.
ANDREAS GROSS

What we're doing is kind of expanding upon the neighbor concept.
BILL GROSS

Those countries that use firewalls or otherwise restrict the ability of their citizens to obtain acc...
DAVID GROSS

The document is fabulous. There were proposals to create a governmental organization that might cont...
DAVID GROSS

We only used the dining room table about once or twice a year.
LESLIE GROSS

I met the Queen. It was the nicest thing. I can?t believe it.
PAUL GROSS

People are concerned what it means for the future of the paper.
ANDALE GROSS

We want to let the community know we're fighting for our newspaper, and we hope they will, too.
ANDALE GROSS

I don't think any of us saw it coming.
ANDALE GROSS

It's just that other areas are more attractive, such as the mortgage market,
BILL GROSS

That sparked my interest, ... I wondered how long it had really been here.
BARBARA GROSS

His success speaks for itself; probably that has more to do with his personality. He's comfortable a...
BARBARA GROSS

Everyone is not 65 (who is a city commissioner), ... It will help attract more people to run for off...
BARBARA GROSS

It was a lot more fun this year because it was in Buffalo. It was more of a team activity - we flew ...
BEN GROSS

He was a good guy, he was a hard worker, he was a family man. It's a shame this happened. I hope the...
BEN GROSS

It's a bunch of lives ruined today.
BEN GROSS

I'm not against anything that identifies you at nighttime.
RICHARD GROSS

An eating disorder is a coping mechanism keeping you from more pain, but you have to ask yourself - ...
CINDY GROSS

We were pleased with the ruling in that it clearly stated that the Gaming Board had the authority to...
BARRY GROSS

false, erroneous and mean-spirited.
BARRY GROSS

a disservice to the Lohan children.
BARRY GROSS

The trend has long been for spaces to migrate to the outer boroughs. It seems like the tide is turni...
STEVE GROSS

The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and...
DAVID GROSS

It's certainly still in the community. The sooner it's identified and treated, the sooner the transm...
CINDY GROSS

This is a disease that is occurring across the nation. As you age, your immunity wanes, and you are ...
CINDY GROSS

We want to be very clear, and not necessarily fuzz things up with diplomatic language that may get u...
DAVID GROSS

I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
DAVID GROSS

Nobody heard of it last year and now we're helping farmers.
BILL GROSS

The catch phrase positively rejoices in being a formula, an accepted gambit, a ready-made reaction.
JOHN GROSS

At $1.75, some believed the market had reached its peak, and they said the same thing at $2. Now we'...
JOHN GROSS

I think they're crazy. There are people that need places to stay and all they're talking about is Ma...
JOHN GROSS

It does not look like the market will get into balance as quickly as people had anticipated.
JOHN GROSS

Can something be ethical but illegal?
JOHN GROSS

He had more time to develop his talents, ... And I get the benefit of it.
JOHN GROSS

My goal is either make something out of them or use them as is, ... I don't believe in destroying th...
JOHN GROSS

To have had a religious upbringing at least assures that in your own mind you are a Jew first, and t...
JOHN GROSS

He has managed to capture the particular aura that made even the poet's more mundane activities-of w...
JOHN GROSS

The cliché is a hackneyed idiom that hopes that it can still palm itself off as a fresh response.
JOHN GROSS

A bullish orientation towards the front-end of the curve therefore should begin to dominate bond str...
BILL GROSS

He took a pistol-whipping tonight. He played offense, played defense, kicked off and punted and did ...
CARL GROSS

This is a very large problem, and it's just not going away. High-tech hacking goes up and down, and ...
BRAD GROSS

It's a very shocking and profound change of the EU's position. The EU's proposal seems to represent ...
DAVID GROSS

The publisher is hindering the Gospel going forth.
CRAIG GROSS

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.
DAVID GROSS

If we were hosting this in house, we'd probably have a lot more down time.
BRAD GROSS

Blake is coming off an injury and we are bringing him back slowly. He is coming back very well.
GALE GROSS

I've struggled with anorexia since I was 11. I've also taken on bulimic tendencies more recently ove...
CINDY GROSS

People would trade secrets about their tendencies, comparing themselves to others and figuring out h...
CINDY GROSS

I wouldn't be interested in our coaches recruiting players from Duke, given the situation. I think i...
DARYL GROSS

We think that that's inappropriate, ... The genius of the Internet is that it has been flexible (and...
DAVID GROSS

Obviously we want to find common ground, we want a successful summit, but we're not giving away our ...
DAVID GROSS

His bark is worse than his bite. He's got a gruff exterior but underneath is a heart of gold.
BILL GROSS

If Fed Funds were expected to rise in the future, the curve would be positive with intermediate and ...
BILL GROSS

This radically changes advertising. It makes it much more accountable.
BILL GROSS

Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.
BILL GROSS

To the extent that they're at the beginning of their cycle, much as we were 12 months ago, that sugg...
BILL GROSS

Investment markets in the United States will not ultimately prosper under such an increasingly odoro...
BILL GROSS

That is not to say that long government bonds won't go up in price if the 'system' suffers some elim...
BILL GROSS

The current, rather mild U.S. recovery has been driven by asset appreciation/consumption and not emp...
BILL GROSS

We challenge our companies to leverage their global leadership by developing and implementing a set ...
DAVID GROSS

thoughtful, secular approach to the chairmanship, focused on the long-term evolution of the U.S. and...
BILL GROSS

I would like GE and other companies to be more candid in terms of disclosing exactly how they do the...
BILL GROSS

The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to ma...
BILL GROSS

That was my amateur background. I fought about 55 fights and took a year off before deciding I wante...
SHELBY GROSS

The prevailing method is to warn skiers with visual warnings, the bright orange, and they're suppose...
MICHAEL GROSS

I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social ...
ANDREW GROSS

When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for ...
BILL GROSS

We can confirm now that during his ... trip to the Czech Republic, he did have a contact with an off...
STANISLAV GROSS

I thought for the first time we put together a couple of pretty good drives tonight.
CARL GROSS

The thing about it, it didn't seem to me like he lost a step from the first to fourth quarter. That ...
CARL GROSS

Even our attorney in Valley City is a volunteer.
BILL GROSS

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' th...
ANDREW GROSS

When I decided to give boxing all my focus, this is the reason I did it. I'm more ready for this tha...
SHELBY GROSS

Science is shaped by ignorance. Great questions themselves evolve, of course, because their answers ...
DAVID GROSS

If Republicans can marry their gun rights and cultural agenda with one that is perceived as friendly...
DOUG GROSS

Did you see that poof of dust come up when they ran by? That's how dry the ground is. The most tende...
DICK GROSS

That is the way the process worked out.
DICK GROSS

There's a lot of really good, although not well-known, books that are really almost impossible to ge...
DICK GROSS

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
DAVID GROSS

The U.S. government's agreement with Starbucks represents a major victory for the right of Starbucks...
DANIEL GROSS

This settlement creates the organizing space we need to continue the already positive membership gro...
DANIEL GROSS

We've been very, very clear throughout the process that there are certain things we can agree to and...
DAVID GROSS

We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet, ... Some countries want th...
DAVID GROSS

Denver is signed, sealed and delivered to the league. Right now, we're just waiting to get the team ...
DAVID GROSS

Until I see an announcement that they officially have a league, I'm not going to comment. The NLL th...
DAVID GROSS

Every check we deposited ... is verified and accounted for. So this is a shock. We listen but don't ...
DAVID GROSS

What's gonna happen is they're gonna say holy -- who is this guy that can raise this kind of money a...
DAVID GROSS

Who's to say otherwise? That's an easy wash,
DAVID GROSS

I know those rules. I know which rules not to break and I know how to get around everything else. Yo...
DAVID GROSS

Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity lea...
BILL GROSS

Josh is a weapon (on kickoffs and field goals) and has come into his own as a punter. We need to mak...
JEFF GROSS

This whole religious rule book just needs to be burned, and we need to reinvent the rules. Otherwise...
CRAIG GROSS

We certainly don't want what's happening in Iowa to happen in Illinois or Kane County or any county.
CINDY GROSS

I was doing everything imaginable with school and clubs, but I wasn't sleeping or eating.
CINDY GROSS

We received a report from a medical provider. It is a required reportable disease.
CINDY GROSS

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

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I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

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