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Ira Glass Quotes

I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.

Ira Glass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Myself Animal I Can Will Never

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

John Burnside

Animals True Wild Real Encounter

You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.

Anderson Varejao

Practice You Ready Play Know Never

The more powerful you become, the less likely it is that people will tell you the truth. It must be why the 'Harry Potter' books become so bloated as the series progresses; think of the beautiful, precise editing of books 1-3 drowned in a mire of sycophancy and yea-saying.

Robert Rinder

Truth Beautiful People Think You

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

John Rhys-Davies

Imagination Child World Hurt You

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

Ronaldinho

Men Two Field Met Toughest John

Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist.

Mike Wilson

Great Games Will Whatever Exist Our

Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.

Mike Barnicle

Truth History Reality Quiet Never

I was asked a question: 'Would I want to play for Madrid?' It's like anyone asked if they want to change jobs and move to a bigger company.

Luis Suarez

Change Play Want Question Company

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

Joseph Kanon

You Perfect Want Editing Writer

My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.

Diane von Furstenberg

Mother Beautiful Me Protect Never

The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.

Arthur Laffer

Negative Tax Between Public Rates

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

William P. Leahy

Faith People Think Look Way Abuse