Ira Glass Quotes

I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

Ira Glass

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When we go somewhere in New York, I'm known as Mr. Savini.

Jimmy Webb

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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Jessamyn West

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I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling with musical language seems to me the highest achievement.

Jennifer Egan

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Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

Megan Fox

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We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over and over again. And then you holler, 'Be patient.' How long can we be patient?

John Lewis

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I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.

Robert Goulet

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I don't think that we have a consistent team motto, but before we take to the ice, Charlie and I like to go over things and just reminding ourselves to have a wonderful time and enjoy the moment.

Meryl Davis

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There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

Robbie Williams

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You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table... Otherwise, you can just disappear.

Rita Ora

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I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the words. I mean you have to know what is being said, but didn't you find even if you didn't get all of the words, you certainly get the emotion?

Ronny Cox

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The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

Rush Limbaugh

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What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

Mike Birbiglia

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