Ira Glass Quotes
I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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I've accepted that we've all got crap to deal with and problems that we're fighting not to be defined by. At the end of the day, we all want the same stuff: fulfillment, love, support, comfort, and a hot-air balloon with laser guns attached to it. The most important thing is that we appreciate the crazy ride we're on.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
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'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.
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The twentieth century was the great century of Christian martyrs, and this is true both in the Catholic Church and in other Churches and ecclesial communities.
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
