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.

Ira Glass

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LiveMyselfPeopleWorldEasyRadio

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'

Jo Ann Davis

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I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

Jim Doyle

MoreMadeThanGovernorEverAny

I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.

Jim Otto

PeopleGameThinkWantSeePlaying

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

Jim Coleman

LifeGoodKnowWantMeanPretty

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Tracy Chevalier

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You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

Tony Dorsett

LifeHopeMistakesGrowYouAlways

We yelled, mostly, but bad enough that you wanted to fight. That's how we became winners. We fought each other. When you did something wrong, we'd tell you about it.

Mickey Rivers

FightEnoughYouBadWrongWinners

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.

Mitch Daniels

WorkAgeRetirementPlanNewBeen

Free migration within Europe means that countries that have done a better job at reducing unemployment will predictably end up with more than their fair share of refugees. Workers in these countries bear the cost in depressed wages and higher unemployment, while employers benefit from cheaper labor.

Joseph Stiglitz

JobFreeEndBetterLaborDone

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

Jon Oringer

BelieveEarlyCreatingPossible

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

David Weber

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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

Christopher Lasch

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