Ira Glass Quotes

Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

Ira Glass

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FoodAmazingWinYouLookCountry

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

Johannes Stark

LightWavesAtomsComeOnly

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

Jeremy Northam

HumorThinkSense Of HumorPageKind

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

Merle Haggard

LifeMy LifeBackEarlyInjuryHad

I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.

Steve Alford

SchoolRootsHigh SchoolBackBorn

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

Roseanne Barr

MotherWomanPeopleHellMoreBeing

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.

Lucien Bourjeily

TheatreEnoughYouPlayWantTouch

If legislators come to believe that police power is an ever-present constitutional trump card they can play whenever it suits them, overreaching is inexorable.

Don Willett

PowerPoliceBelieveSuitsPlay

The NFL wants to see teams put up points.

Chris Harris, Jr.

SeeUpNFLWantsPointsPut

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

LifeNeedRealFictionSuccessful

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.

Craig Brown

YouHappenOnlyPerilSpells

What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living - and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about.

Brooke Shields

WorkHomeWomenSmartIndependence

There are Christians who think there were seven actual days, or that creation was over time. They have answers for dinosaurs and things of that nature. And I don't claim to have any of those answers. And I understand people wanting to have discussions about it.

Shawn Michaels

NatureTimePeopleThinkUnderstand

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