Ira Glass Quotes
I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.Ira Glass
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
Barbara Kruger -
I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.
Camille Paglia -
I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
Lady Gaga -
I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
Lady Gaga -
It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
Patrick Macnee -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'
Gail Collins -
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
Daniel Alarcon -
There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
Gary Clark Jr. -
One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
Randy Houser -
I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
Natalie du Toit -
I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
Jack Hanna -
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
Warren Rudman -
More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
Ian Wace -
I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.
Pamela Anderson -
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere -
Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel -
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
David Wilkerson -
So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
K. Pattabhi Jois -
I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.
Joel Osteen -
I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.
Ira Glass