Ira Glass Quotes
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
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If you haven't got a hernia yet, you ain't pulling your share.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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Your body is molecular structure your body is a massive energy at a very high speed of vibration.
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'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.
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I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
