Ira Glass Quotes

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

Ira Glass

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YourselfEmpathyPeopleThinkingYou

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

Jimmy Iovine

MusicGreatServicePeopleNeed

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

Joe Nichols

ToughArtistSayLittleArtists

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

Jennifer Carpenter

AgeBestTryingInformationFind

I would love to bring my mum to see me in shows and travel Europe with me because she has done so, so much for me.

Andreja Pejic

LoveTravelMeDoneSheSee

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

John Phillips

MoonLearnGoNewWillMars

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

Milton Babbitt

PerceptionNewHumanLimitations

A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.

Jay Parini

GodViewArgumentWorshipSameOver

I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write white people, and that's not OK.

Courtney A. Kemp

I AmPeopleColorWhiteSayWrite

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

Colin Quinn

TimeHumorStandFriendsSayAlways

Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time.

Ashton Shepherd

TimeMeWritingSongSometimesWant

This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs to adverts.

Winston Marshall

MusicPeopleSellingNowBandMean

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Winston Churchill

TogetherWifeBreakfastStopThree

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