Ira Glass Quotes

Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

Ira Glass

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I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.

John Ortberg

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Though the publishing industry swears the market is oversaturated, books written by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and by embedded journalists keep on coming.

Matt Gallagher

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I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.

Ana Tijoux

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Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Mary Ellen Mark

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I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I have exercise-induced asthma.

Chyler Leigh

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My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.

Bobby Orr

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We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

Arvind Gupta

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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Alfred de Vigny

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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Peter De Vries

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We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

Paz Vega

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