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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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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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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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 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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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.
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Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.
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I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.
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Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
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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.
