Ira Glass Quotes
I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.
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To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
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I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.
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Sometimes I feel I have no idea what I'm doing as an actor. I just did a tape for the TV remake of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' and I think it could be the worst thing I've ever done.
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By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.
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There's a lot of spotlight that comes along with being the best in the world.
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
