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Ira Glass

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

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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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"Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."

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"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

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"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

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"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money."

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"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

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"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."

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"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."

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"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."

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

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

Money

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Ira Glass
"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."

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Ira Glass
"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"

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

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Ira Glass
"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."

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

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

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Ira Glass
"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."

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Ira Glass
"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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