Ira Glass Quotes
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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I miss baseball.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
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Have the courage to make a mistake.
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
