Ira Glass Quotes
It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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I'm very open-minded.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England. They are always putting you in your place in one way or another, and there is this pretty rigid class hierarchy.
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I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain!
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You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.
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When I started getting in front of the camera a lot, I think my confidence started to come out.
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It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
