Ira Glass Quotes
Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Personally, fresh air and exercise help me stay healthy and make me feel great!
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No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.
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At the same time we receive different signals all around that in fact, everything is fine. The same situation occurred with the previous administrations during the election campaigns, claims that everything will be restored later. I do not think it matches the level of responsibility shouldered by the United States. I suppose it should be more sound, calm and balanced.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Make dinner with the goal of stretching it out for lunch in the back of your mind. Making more of one thing is cheaper than buying more varied ingredients for each meal.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
