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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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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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 was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.
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I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.
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After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.
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I've decided that I'm completely rock n' roll.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
