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Ira Glass Quotes

I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

Ira Glass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Road Story Go Out Big

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

John David Washington

Family Hood Southern Who Differently

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

John F. Kennedy

Fitness Security Growing Physical

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

Robert Scheer

War Strong Think Run Years Paper

The power of fantasy is that you can make people understand the deeper realities of our world in a way that they wouldn't normally be able to because of all the things in our world that closes them off.

Tomi Adeyemi

Power People World You Understand

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Ron Wyden

Best War Road Back Circumstances

I'm kosher except for times where I eat pork and shellfish.

Roseanne Barr

Eat Pork Where Except Kosher Times

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Mohsin Hamid

Yourself Empathy Finding Person

After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing around, vagrancy, or the equivalent of jaywalking - arrested and then sent to prison and then leased to plantations.

Michelle Alexander

Men Slavery Prison End Standing

I immediately was captured by 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist.' It gave me a springboard into contemporary Pakistan and a dialogue between Pakistan and the rest of the world.

Mira Nair

Me World Rest Dialogue Pakistan

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Doris Lessing

Peace Sail Think You Lake Young

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

Christopher Meloni

Reality Enough You Try Bend Hard

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

Brian Eno

Me Guitar Back Play Top Bar