Ira Glass Quotes
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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I try to go to Marrakesh if there's a Bank Holiday weekend.
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Would make a superb public candidate for public office in the future.
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I'm not trying to feed off of a concept that another artist had - that's not what I do.
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After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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We have a very structured process for taking in refugees. It takes almost two years to transition from another country into the United States through the refugee process.
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I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.
