Ira Glass Quotes
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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I don't know what love means.
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At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.
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At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
