Ira Glass Quotes
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
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First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?
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I can't play guitar like Pete Townshend. The flip side of that is that Pete Townshend could probably never have played like me.
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.
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There's something about seeing somebody who thinks they're great and is so wrapped up in their moves, voice, and performance that makes it so wonderfully charming that you can't take your eyes off. That's why we all remember William Hung from those first years of 'American Idol. It's the William Hung effect.
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Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?
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The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.
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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
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Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
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In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.
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And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.
Mark Spitz -
I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.
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When I had kids, I had to work out how to keep my stamina up. I learned the power of protein and eating a variety of foods.
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My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
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I'll bring what I bring to the tale, but it's good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant puzzle, and each one of us is a very important and unique part of it. Collectively, we can unite and bring about a powerful change in the world. By working to raise our awareness to the highest possible level of spiritual understanding, we can begin to heal ourselves, then each other and the world.
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When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair.
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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
