Ira Glass Quotes
I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.Ira Glass
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I'm not Cinderella.
Valerie Trierweiler -
This was just one of many times God has spared me.
Jack Kelley -
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
Ira Glass -
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
Octavia Spencer -
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Manuel Puig
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
Vance Joy -
There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
J. J. Watt -
I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
Fat Joe -
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
Ralph Bakshi -
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
R. Kelly -
Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
Patrick Collison
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
A. R. Rahman -
I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
Abby Wambach -
Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
Kangana Ranaut -
I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
Pat Conroy -
I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
Laura San Giacomo -
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
Aaron Paul
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
Oleg Cassini -
I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
Yuri Milner -
Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
Peter Thiel -
You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
Carlo Rubbia -
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.
Ira Glass