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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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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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'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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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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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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We must tell girls their voices are important.
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Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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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.
