Ira Glass Quotes
One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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Many an actor does the stage more ham than good.
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I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
