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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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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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
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Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
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I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
