Ira Glass Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I like things simple.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.
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You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
