Ira Glass Quotes
I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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I would never walk off any show.
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I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.
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Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.
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I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
