190 Quotes by ira glass

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

Hearing it in her words, it makes it all the more real. It's something that's hard to get across in print, hard to do in any other way. ... We all hear about AIDS in Africa, but this makes it real.

I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.

I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.