Terry Gross

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The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Children
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Dad mistook - for some reason unbeknownst to me - he mistook his family for a platoon of Marines. I mean, he - the exact same thing he brought to the disciplining of a squadron, a battalion, a platoon, he brought to the disciplining of his children. He ran the house - he had Saturday morning inspections for us, he had white-glove inspections for us as kids.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Morning
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There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.
- Terry Gross
Collection: People
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And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you - so I started doing this. Other truths come out.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Hurt
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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.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Husband
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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.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Google
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When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Campaigns
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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.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Mother
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Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Might
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I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Believe
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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.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Commitment
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So if Hillary [Clinton] is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill Clinton, he'll be the first man and the first former president to return to the White House in the capacity of spouse.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Men
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[Hillary Clinton] is hinted a little bit about what his[Bill Clinton] role might be, but just a little bit.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Roles
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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.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Growing Up
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It's been reported - in fact, The New York Times has reported that intelligence agencies have told the White House that they now have, quote, "high confidence" that the Russian government was behind the hack.
- Terry Gross
Collection: New York
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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.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Home
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Based on the number that they found, The New York Times reported that Hillary [Clinton] had basically clinched the primary 'cause you added the superdelegates to the number of delegates you'd already gotten. But this was on the eve of the California and New Jersey primary.
- Terry Gross
Collection: New York
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I'm wondering if the Roger Ailes scandal in which more than 20 women have come forward accusing him of sexual harassment is going to affect that narrative that's directed against Hillary [Clinton] and her husband pertaining to his infidelities.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Husband
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I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like it was a video game or something. And then there's ads where, like, you know, the X to, like, close the ad screen is so kind of small that you can't find it and you have to actually go looking for it. And so I spend all my energy - instead of, like, absorbing what the advertiser wants to communicate to me, I spend my energy trying to figure out how to defeat the ad.
- Terry Gross
Collection: Moving