Ira Glass Quotes
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.
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The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.
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But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
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People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.
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We have worked to make our trade negotiations more transparent and to negotiate value-based agreements. We have listened to concerns, for example by carrying out a reform of the investment protection system and setting out to create a multilateral investment court. Our world is rapidly changing and this creates a multitude of concerns.
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
