Ira Glass Quotes
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.Ira Glass
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
Ralph Bellamy -
Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
T. J. Miller -
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Barbra Streisand
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
Washed Out -
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
Walter Salles -
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
Vicki Lawrence -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
Barbet Schroeder -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
Laura Linney -
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
Hamza Yusuf -
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
Oliver Stone -
I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
Taylor Swift
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As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'
Bonnie Langford -
My biggest problem with everything going on is the lack of understanding and the lack of respect in this world.
Blake Griffin -
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
Ram Dass -
I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt really lucky to be a part of it even in a small way.
Ben Silbermann -
Josh is the guy in the band who's just so friendly and super, wanting to walk up to you and say, 'Hey, I'm Josh. I drum in this band, and I'm a big fan of you, and I really appreciate what you do.' Josh has all these great friends in the industry now.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots -
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Ira Glass