Ira Glass Quotes
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
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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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Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.
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We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
