Ira Glass Quotes
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
Eddie Charles Jones -
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
Damien Hirst -
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
Major Taylor -
I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
X. J. Kennedy -
First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?
Orson Scott Card -
I can't play guitar like Pete Townshend. The flip side of that is that Pete Townshend could probably never have played like me.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya -
Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.
Charles E. Wilson -
There's something about seeing somebody who thinks they're great and is so wrapped up in their moves, voice, and performance that makes it so wonderfully charming that you can't take your eyes off. That's why we all remember William Hung from those first years of 'American Idol. It's the William Hung effect.
Craig Robinson -
Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?
Chris Messina -
The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.
Barry Barish -
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
David Hockney
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Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
Martha Plimpton -
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.
Charles Scott Sherrington -
And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.
Mark Spitz -
I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.
Kenneth Fisher -
When I had kids, I had to work out how to keep my stamina up. I learned the power of protein and eating a variety of foods.
Darcey Bussell -
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
Joey Skaggs
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
Malala Yousafzai -
People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.
Zach Braff -
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.
Bette Ford -
I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
Ira Glass