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Ira Glass Quotes

Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Me Cool Feel Magic I Can

Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources.

Art Bridge Engineering Design You

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Andrew Carnegie

Climb Brainy Push You Ladder Up

The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel.

Robert J. Sawyer

Success Science Yourself People Name

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

Life My Life Doing Result Principles

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

Long Rumors False Beliefs Been Lies

One of the interesting things about the 'Decameron' itself was it was written in the Florentine dialect as opposed to the Latin vernacular - and that was mainly to have it be a piece of literature for the people as supposed to some kind of highfalutin' canon.

People Interesting Literature Kind

'Scarface' was a tremendous undertaking, and I'm one of those who really feel that no one could have done it like Brian De Palma.

Feel Done Who Like Brian Those

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

Love Sports Politics Country Absurd

We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

Life Time Memory Grow Interesting

Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

Me Energy Person Go Stage See

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

Dick Van Patten

Child Actor Radio Left Us Many

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

Mountain Think House Place Colorado

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