Ira Glass Quotes
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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I can paint in jail.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.
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I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.
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The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
