List of Terry Gross Quotes

Sometimes When I'm On The Internet, I'll Get This, Like, Which Of These Ad Experiences Would You Prefer? And I'll Have A Choice Of, Like, A Car, A Pharmaceutical Item Or, You Know, Clothing. And I'm Thinking, Like, I Don't Want Any Of These. Do I Have To Choose?

I Think There's Always An Expectation When You're A First Generation, Especially A First-generation Nigerian, Of Sort Of Being A Doctor Or A Lawyer Or An Engineer. And So, You Know, Sort Of My Initial Pursuits Into The Arts And That I Was Going To Pursue Film As A Career Didn't Confuse Them, But It Was Definitely Something That They Were Scared About.

I Was Thinking About Comedy And How Comedy In Many Ways Opens Us Up To Ideas And Really Being Influenced By Richard Pryor And Sort Of The Way He Would Use Comedy To Really Speak About Larger Social Issues.

The Sex Drive Is One Of The Most Fundamental Human Urges, And Throughout History, There Have Been Laws Regulating What Is Considered Acceptable Sexual Behavior. In The Past Century, The Law Has Had Trouble Keeping Up With Changing Social And Moral Standards.

I Don't Think My Father Noticed That He Had Daughters. I Think, You Know, Part Of The Damage Of The Childhood Was, I Simply Don't Think They Were Acknowledged As Human Beings At All. Or - You Know, One Of The Reasons I Became A Cook Later On In My Life Was, I Was Not Allowed To Cook An Egg.

I Respect Someone's Right To Privacy And I Want Them To Know It.

It Sometimes Is Just The Fear Of Being Misunderstood.

And The Rules Were So Clear, You Could Not Deviate From That All. And I Think It Especially Damaged My Sisters Because There Was Nothing They Could Do To Get My Father's Attention, To Win His Approval. They Could Not Play Sports. They Could Not Do These Other Things. They Could Not Be Tough. They Could Not Be Macho. And So I Think They Suffered Just From Sheer Neglect If Nothing Else.

What Puts Someone On Guard Isn't Necessarily The Fear Of Being Found Out.

I Love The Edited Version Of It.

I'm Not The Betting Kind.

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] Has Been Very Guarded With The Press.

Rapists Who Might've Been Convicted Were Free To Assault Other Women.

I Was In An Adolescent Psychology Class At Citadel When The Guy Said, If You Had A Mother Who Was Beaten, There's A Great Chance You'll Beat Your Wife. And If You Were Beaten As A Child, There's A Terrific Chance You're Going To Be A Child-beater.

I'm First Generation American, And My Parents Were Both From Nigeria. And So I Always Say That I'm Literally An African American. So My Last Name Is Famuyiwa, It's Different. And So That Was A Part Of My Experience From People Not Being Able To Pronounce It To Not Sort Of Having Sort Of A Shared, Common History With A Lot Of The Kids That I Was Growing Up With Because My Parents Were From Africa.

And Once You Say This Is True, You Start Naming The Beast That Hurts You - So I Started Doing This. Other Truths Come Out.

You Know, How Am I Leading My Own Life? What Am I Denying? Since I Brought Such Great Powers Of Denial Into My Adult Life, What Am I Not Doing As A Husband? What Am I Not Doing As A Father? The Whole Thing Started Unraveling With Me That Once I Kept It Up Close To The Chest, I Could Hold It All In, But Once I Started Letting It Out, It All Started Coming Out.

When I Hear A Politician Speak Biographically, I Never Know What's Part Of The Campaign Biography Narrative That's Been Carefully Crafted.

I Don't Want To Help A Politician Revise The Truth.

It Seems That's Where Bill Clinton Came In Last Night Because He Told This Long Story About How They Met [with Hillary Clinton], How He Courted Her, How He Bought A House To Convince Her, I Think After The Third Proposal, To Actually Marry Him. And He Talked About Her Activism And Her Commitment And Everything. And It Was As If He Could Tell The Narrative In A Way That She Couldn't.

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.

[hillary Clinton] Really Wants To Be President. She Wanted To Be President In '08. She's Hardly Left The Spotlight.

I'm Really Interested In, Who's Booked The Guests, Who's Decided To Have Lena Dunham And To Have The Mothers Of Sons Who Were Shot - Sons And Daughters Who Were Shot By The Police And, You Know, The Other Performers, Paul Simon And Alicia Keys.