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Ira Glass Quotes

I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I Am Think Better Organizing Quick

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

John Hanning Speke

Family Power Death Twins Delight

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

Confidence Attitude Power Humble

I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our foreign policy. When they're educated, they tend to give back more to their communities, to rise out of poverty in a way that is good for their families and their communities and, ultimately, their countries.

Good Think Poverty Back Rise Way

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

History Know False Must Read Oh

Companies understand that if their employees are sick, it's really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still in the health-care system.

God Sick Thank God Employees System

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

Girl Great Style Me You Intention

For me, it's about touching as many people as I can and helping as many people as I can with my music.

Music People Me I Can Helping Many

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

Experience Political Judge You House

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

Age Myself Me Size Whatever Been

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

Dreams Age Time Politics Night

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Work Loved Him Would Knew Wilder

I never, ever saw myself as glam because I didn't wear makeup... my image is a plain leather jumpsuit, which is not glam at all. I've always seen myself as rock n' roll and not glam.

Myself Makeup Rock Never Image Wear

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