Terry Gross Quotes

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.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

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

I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.

When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.

Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.

And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you - so I started doing this. Other truths come out.

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

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

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

I'm not the betting kind.

I love the edited version of it.

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

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.

Hillary [Clinton] has been very guarded with the press.

All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

[Hillary Clinton] is hinted a little bit about what his[Bill Clinton] role might be, but just a little bit.

Donald Trump's hair frankly. Sometimes you know you're going to get criticism, but you just have to take .

The [Bernie] Sanders campaign said you might be suppressing the vote by doing this 'cause people in those states might decide to stay home, that their vote doesn't count.

One of the things Donald Trump has criticized Hillary [Clinton] for is discrediting women who said they'd had affairs or been sexually harassed by her husband.

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff.

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.