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Ira Glass Quotes

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 3, 1959

Topics

Purpose Driving Question Radio Where

The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.

Man Bad Television Guy Bad Man Who

When the pastor's up there, they do this thing called looping. They are literally riffing and spitting in the key of the organ. When looping, you're in key, you're in a rhythm, you're in a pocket, and that's where James Brown was pulling from, and so that's where I'm pulling from. The only difference is I'm coming at it under hip-hop.

Key You Hip-Hop Difference Rhythm

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

Understand Wit Dry Just

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.

You Powerful Want Presence Halo Off

To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.

War Space People Perception Cold

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

Michele Bachmann

Change Government People World Real

My goal is to be the No. 1 golfer in the world, and I want to chase Tiger.

World Tiger Goal Want Chase Golfer

Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.

Myself Day Man Suffering Secrets

Certainly, it's not unprecedented in the fashion world to use human hair on clothing.

Hair World Fashion Human Clothing

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Change Wrong Person Him Something

The battle of getting better is never ending.

Ending Better Getting Better Battle

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

Wynton Marsalis

Music Song Learn Push Information

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