Ira Glass Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened.
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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
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Solar energy is bound to be in our future. There's a kind of inevitability about it.
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Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.
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This Romeo character is something I decided to create, like my alter ego. So the name Romeo was invented from the original Romeo and Juliet. I wanted to show people I'm like a modern Romeo.
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The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.
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Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.
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Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating.
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I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.
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Even though I wear glasses, I'm not just a mousy person who stays in my room - even though I do sometimes stay in my room and read.
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I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.
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This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.
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The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.
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'Zone One' comes out of me trying to work through some of my ideas about why, for me personally, zombies are scary.
Colson Whitehead -
Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.
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Most of my work for the past 25 years has been devoted to organizing demonstrations, benefits and campaigns, many of which have had the effect of bringing a policy debate to public focus or moving a political agenda forward. It's become a cliché to say 'think globally and act locally,' but it works.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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If all of a sudden someone said, 'You have five more kids,' I'd be totally OK with it.
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Prostitutes have feelings; they are very human. They hurt, bleed cry and laugh just like you and me. To the people that want to legalize prostitution: Let me ask you a question. If you want to legalize it, would you now let your daughter/niece/grand daughter/sister do this? Why not sign them up for what you want legalized? And if not, WHY not? Does it make them too human for you now?
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Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.
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I'm a cliche.
