Ira Glass Quotes

When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.

Ira Glass

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We have a problem in the industry, I believe. This whole 'free' issue. The television industry doesn't have it, the movie industry doesn't have it, but the record industry has it.

Jimmy Iovine

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Winning a world title has always been the dream and ultimate goal.

John John Florence

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When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

Angela Merkel

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I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

Jeff Nichols

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There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Siri Hustvedt

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Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.

Roger Ailes

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We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

Debby Boone

MusicHeartThinkYouWayHuman

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

Coleman Hawkins

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I like movies and radios and Bruce Springsteen and New Jersey. That's what I like, and if people don't like that, well, literally you can go on iTunes, and there's hundreds of other bands you can listen to.

Brian Fallon

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I was never invited to the White House.

Bobby Fischer

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We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

Allen Iverson

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I think America has always been polarized.

Alice Walker

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