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

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Terry Gross
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 14
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Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
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When you're reading a newspaper and you're seeing ads on the page, it's not kind of invasive. Like, it's on the page next to the article. You can look at it or not. You can turn the page when you're ready. On the internet, the ads - many of the ads - just are so controlling. They insist that you see them.
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The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.
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Hillary [Clinton] has been very guarded with the press.
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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.
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I love the edited version of it.
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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.
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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.
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[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Gene Wilder made his movie debut in Bonnie And Clyde, starred in the Mel Brooks films The Producers, Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles, played opposite Richard Pryor in Silver Streak and Stir Crazy and portrayed the candy-maker in Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.
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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.
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What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.
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