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Famous Names, Lost Interviews

Alvin Toffler and Margaret Mead, an author and an anthropologist who endeavored to understand the impact of scientific invention. In this ep...

Oliver Sacks, Jacques Cousteau, and George Washington Carver. Our podcast returns with lost interviews featuring this trio on self, sight, a...

“The evolutionary record is clear that extraterrestrials would be very different from us” – Carl Sagan in 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The...

“I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last” – Dame Steve Shirley in 2010 Dame Stephanie Shirle...

“Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function.” – Temple Grandin in 2008 This rarely heard oral history with...

“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” – Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, as told to Mike Wallace Archi...

“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” – Sally Ride, the first American woman in...

“My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction.” – Garris...

“It’s a good time for black people to be alive. It’s a lot of hell. A lot of violence, but I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life...

“Nothing means anything — except the artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole, though no such holes exist.”...

“I‘m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.” – Bill Murray in 1988 as told to T.J. English Th...

“I‘m a coward, I didn’t want to die” – Patty Hearst in 1982, as told to Larry Grobel. Larry Grobel told us the story about a time back in th...

“I don’t know what the ‘big time’ is” – Tom Waits in 1988 as told to Chris Roberts Imagine what would happen if you sat down on a couch next...

“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” – Hunter S. Thompson in 1967 with Studs Terkel. The interview was record...

“I carried a knife taped to my leg. I never used it but it was there.” – Dustin Hoffman in 1971. Listening to this interview tape from the P...

“I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.” Blank on Blank

“I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.“ Blank on Blank

“I want to be the force which is truly for good.” Blank on Blank

“If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.” Blank on Blank

“Mama just always said, 'you be what you are and you don’t have to worry about nothing.'” Blank on Blank

"The key was somehow to know what was important because I can’t learn everything." Blank on Blank

”When I was about 10, 11, I fell in love with Tarzan.“ Blank on Blank

“I was sure things were just not being done in logical ways.” Blank on Blank

“I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope” Blank on Blank

“I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.” Blank on Blank

“A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.” Blank on Blank

”If I knew how it was going to end, I probably wouldn't write it.” Blank on Blank

“Comedy is there to show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.” Blank on Blank

“I‘m pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.” Blank on Blank

“The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing.” Blank on Blank

“Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff.” Blank on Blank

“I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.” Blank on Blank

“My singing… I’ll just say it simple as possible: It’s just godly.” Blank on Blank

“The thing that was relentless for me was how you look... It just drove me crazy.” Blank on Blank

“Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live” Blank on Blank

"If it’s wearing a pink hat and a red nose, and it plays a guitar upside down, I will go and look at it." Blank on Blank

“When you please your mother, it gives you confidence you can please other people” Blank on Blank

“It’s no good being with people you can dominate all the time” Blank on Blank

“I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on” Blank on Blank

“My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.” Blank on Blank

“I’ve done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?” Blank on Blank

“When things get too heavy just call me helium--the lightest known gas to man.” Blank on Blank

“When a man’s making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.” Blank on Blank

“There is the fear you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.” Blank on Blank

“I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play.” Blank on Blank

“The President turned to me and asked: ‘Is that a Givenchy you‘re wearing?‘” Blank on Blank

“When we fell in with the acid tests we a started having the most fun we had ever had.” Blank on Blank

“I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem.” Blank on Blank

“If somebody don’t like something that I do, that’s his or her prerogative. Just like it’s mine.” Blank on Blank

“In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.” Blank on Blank