I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.
Ira GlassI just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.
Ira GlassI am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
Ira GlassYou will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.
Ira GlassI remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put the baby into some lady's stomach, right? And, at some point, I learned how it really happened, and really that was the beginning of the end of my belief in God. Up until that point, it had always been a really weird act of intervention on God's part.
Ira Glass