Ira Glass Quotes

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

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• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Think
  • Future
  • Twitter

• Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Respect
  • Popular

• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Reality
  • Blind
  • Patriotism

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Wife
  • Weather
  • Cultures

• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Religion
  • Without

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Good
  • American
  • Guy

• I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Day
  • Best

• Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Game
  • Me

• I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Glorification

• I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Women
  • Know
  • Health

• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wrong

• Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Having three tough finishing holes in a major, you know, you know that, most likely, it's going to come down to those last three holes. Having a good game plan, a good strategy, and executing obviously is going to be the big key.

  

  Dustin Johnson
  • Good
  • Game

• Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Business
  • Today

• The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Business
  • Challenges

• The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.

  

  Lily James
  • Freedom
  • Cinderella

• I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

  

  Ira Glass
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