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"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."

"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
Explore more quotes by Ira Glass

"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."

"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."

"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."

"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."

"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."

"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."

"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."

"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."

"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
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