Ira Glass Quotes
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.
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Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
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People always ask me what I think, if Edward Snoden is a hero, if he's a villain. I don't really tend to moralize it so much as I feel like he's a whistleblower. He's someone who saw a wrongdoing and in order to shine a light on that wrongdoing had to bend some rules and break some laws along the way.
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
