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Jack Speer

NPR newscaster and business journalist

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There are things that I really am interested in doing that I can't do if I continue to do what I'm doing. And I - teaching would be a big thing for me. I'm an adjunct instructor at Johns Hopkins and teach business communications and ethics, so very different from what I do on a daily basis.

Ari Shapiro, NPR All Things Considered, 2 July 2025 source ↗

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Toni Morrison Novelist and editor; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Recorded PBS, Interview, PBS, 23 June 2020 source ↗
Julius Erving Basketball player; ABA and NBA champion
No two weeks have been the same since I retired. Since this is my fifth year out of professional basketball, I'm at a point where I want to evaluate and make a decision whether I want more consistency and continuity, or I want things to continue in that mode. This is a transitional time.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Las Vegas, Nevada, 26 June 1992 source ↗
Freddie Hubbard Jazz trumpeter and composer
Now, it's been very hard for me to accept that. I never - I felt like - I always felt like I could blow it and nothing would never happen until this happened. So now, it's - no matter how hard I practice, it just seem like I can't do the plays I did.
Recorded Tony Cox, NPR News & Notes, 1 December 2008 source ↗
Arvid Carlsson Pharmacologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2000
Then at the time of retirement, that's a big problem in Sweden, as a retired person, because then you are pushed off. I was fortunate even from that point of view because I got a very good research collaboration agreement with Upjohn, the American Upjohn company. So that could help me to go on with my research.
Recorded Adam Smith, Interview at the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach, 9 April 2008 source ↗

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