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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Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
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To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.
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They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.
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I thought the effort was good. I think we lost our focus in the second period when we could of put the Flyers away.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
