Ira Glass Quotes
Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.
Ira Glass
Quotes to Explore
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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. Chidambaram
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
Warren Weaver
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People have to evolve.
Caprice Bourret
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
Fannie Flagg
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
Oscar Pistorius
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
Dana Delany
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
Ian Mckellen
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
Caitlin Doughty
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
Rainbow Rowell
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
Nadine Labaki
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
Pat Mitchell
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
Dan Savage
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
Adam Mansbach
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
Walter Crane
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I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.
Laura Dern
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.
Alan Arkin
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Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
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When I'm not on set, I'm in the studio.
Katherine McNamara
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I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.
Ira Glass
