Ira Glass Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.
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Prospero has always felt most at ease in a study, surrounded by books.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
