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'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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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
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Arrogance is only bad when you lose. If you are winning and you are arrogant it is self-belief.
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We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.
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Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale.
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My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s.
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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.
