Ira Glass Quotes

I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.

Ira Glass

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I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.

Jim Rash

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I never control a film. The film controls me.

Jiang Wen

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Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

John Leonard

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As an actress, I am very happy with 'Singh Is Bliing' because that was totally different from what I have done before.

Amy Jackson

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Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

Amy Grant

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If I had grown up in London, I wouldn't have been as keen to become a comedian or a writer. I'd have been able to see a lot of good films and music and comedy. I'd have been distracted. As it was, I had to make it.

Stewart Lee

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I was in several bands before I joined Judas Priest. Being in those early unknown bands were the stepping stones, really, so I learned a lot in those short few years jumping from one band to another.

Rob Halford

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Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

Mary Pilon

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

Anohni

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Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, a similar percentage of Russians would almost certainly support Putin's quest for a strong Russia. We would mistake this mood at our peril.

Alistair Horne

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It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

Noah Taylor

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