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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony ...
IRA GLASSER

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would def...
IRA GLASSER

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony ...
IRA GLASSER

This Campaign will provide a voice for Americans who believe in both a free church and a free state....
IRA GLASSER

The worry here is ... will the information that is collected here for one purpose be used for other ...
IRA GLASSER

The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a...
IRA GLASSER

The real point is that all this is happening without rules and boundaries and thought and legislatio...
IRA GLASSER

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from ...
WILLIAM GLASSER

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
WILLIAM GLASSER

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be...
WILLIAM GLASSER

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts ...
WILLIAM GLASSER

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages the...
WILLIAM GLASSER

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination...
WILLIAM GLASSER

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
WILLIAM GLASSER

You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences o...
WILLIAM GLASSER

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define...
WILLIAM GLASSER

In any place work is done, you cannot accept anything less than competence if you want high quality.
WILLIAM GLASSER

We Learn . . .
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of wha...
WILLIAM GLASSER

Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash.

another from the world of twee...
ROBIN GLASSER

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
WILLIAM GLASSER

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must...
WILLIAM GLASSER

We Learn . . .10% of what we read20% of what we hear30% of what we see50% of what we see and hear70%...
WILLIAM GLASSER

He shows her through a magnifying glass which he holds in a velvet glove.
REN GLASSER

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose...
WILLIAM GLASSER

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you te...
WILLIAM GLASSER

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with ...
WILLIAM GLASSER

If we are to persuade all students to do quality work, we must involve them deeply in the process of...
WILLIAM GLASSER

When we label anyone "bad", we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled...
WILLIAM GLASSER

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world ...
WILLIAM GLASSER

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our live...
WILLIAM GLASSER

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
WILLIAM GLASSER

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life...
WILLIAM GLASSER

A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
WILLIAM GLASSER

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
WILLIAM GLASSER

Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
WILLIAM GLASSER

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
WILLIAM GLASSER

Everybody needs one essential friend.
WILLIAM GLASSER

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisi...
WILLIAM GLASSER

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
WILLIAM GLASSER

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School a...
WILLIAM GLASSER

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery...
WILLIAM GLASSER

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisi...
WILLIAM GLASSER

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a ...
WILLIAM GLASSER

WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY:
In your case, ED is not a man's name.
ROBIN GLASSER

WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY: You wanna swing? Fine! See that tree branch? The one with the rop...
ROBIN GLASSER

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast yo...
WILLIAM GLASSER

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we hav...
WILLIAM GLASSER

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with stud...
WILLIAM GLASSER

Everybody needs one essential friend.
DR. WILLIAM GLASSER

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of...
IRA SACHS

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
IRA SACHS

I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which...
IRA SACHS

I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nat...
IRA SACHS

I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
IRA SACHS

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
IRA SACHS

Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a g...
IRA SACHS

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
IRA SACHS

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, t...
IRA SACHS

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, ...
IRA SACHS

One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly reali...
IRA SACHS

'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my t...
IRA SACHS

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't neces...
IRA SACHS

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
IRA SACHS

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
IRA SACHS

My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joi...
IRA SACHS

Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
IRA SACHS

Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticat...
IRA SACHS

I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on so...
IRA SACHS

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
IRA SACHS

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
IRA SACHS

You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
IRA SACHS

Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
IRA SACHS

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had ...
IRA LEVIN

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
IRA LEVIN

I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men...
IRA HAYES

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
IRA HAYES

I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to ...
IRA GLASS

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ra...
IRA GLASS

Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what...
IRA GLASS

I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice fo...
IRA GLASS

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you'r...
IRA GLASS

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
IRA GLASS

I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker boo...
IRA GLASS

I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download th...
IRA GLASS

People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely fo...
IRA GLASS

I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about th...
IRA GLASS

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'...
IRA GLASS

I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who ...
IRA GLASS

I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, n...
IRA GLASS

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
IRA GLASS

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that ge...
IRA GLASS

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guil...
IRA GLASS

I like excess. And giant M&M's.
IRA GLASS

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with t...
IRA GLASS

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to y...
IRA GLASS

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
IRA GLASS

Love is sweeping the country.
IRA GERSHWIN

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ...
IRA GERSHWIN

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
IRA GERSHWIN

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
IRA GERSHWIN

Life is one long jubilee.
IRA GERSHWIN

A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, ...
IRA GLASS

The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-l...
IRA GLASS

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
IRA HAYES

What usually comes first is the contract.
IRA GERSHWIN

That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: ac...
IRA LEVIN

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
IRA HAYES

I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly sta...
IRA SACHS

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fu...
IRA GLASS

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
IRA GLASS

It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of ...
IRA GLASS

Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me a...
IRA SACHS

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL...
IRA GLASS

Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporti...
IRA GLASS

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

I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I...
IRA SACHS

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are bette...
IRA GLASS

'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ...
IRA GLASS

Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unautho...
IRA WINKLER

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. I...
IRA SACHS

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northw...
IRA GLASS

Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps ...
IRA GLASS

The biggest problem is keeping the cell tower aloft.
IRA BRODSKY

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it d...
IRA ERWIN

I would say John Hancock is a definite [buyout] candidate.
IRA ZUCKERMAN

There's going to be further consolidation in the insurance industry, and I would say John Hancock is...
IRA ZUCKERMAN

Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why H...
IRA GLASS

Great stories happen to those who can tell them
IRA GLASS

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative wor...
IRA GLASS

We've heard the bad news. Now we have to hear the good news.
IRA ZUCKERMAN

You're one person and I could have a group of loans that will go to that bank.
IRA ZUCKERMAN

I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of int...
IRA GLASS

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural list...
IRA GLASS

The primary goal with the petition is to make sure the seniors are fully informed for the primaries.
IRA LEEDS

These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercia...
IRA WINKLER

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what ...
IRA SACHS

Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in ...
IRA MEHLMAN

Any discussions around that are totally confidential.
IRA LUSTBADER

When the security manager found out, he went through the roof.
IRA WINKLER

When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to...
IRA WINKLER

The more functionality you have, the more likelihood there is for a security vulnerability, and Wind...
IRA WINKLER

I used to say there were only ... a few hundred (in the latter category). These are people who like ...
IRA WINKLER

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot...
IRA GLASS

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a diffe...
IRA LEVIN

a terrible movie.
IRA GERSHWIN

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
IRA GLASS

If you listen to Sam Phillips and [Big Star producer] Jim Dickinson, their use of language is so bea...
IRA SACHS

I happened to be staying with my dad and his present 19-year-old girlfriend. So that was really fasc...
IRA SACHS

it's about what you hide and what you show.
IRA SACHS

I'm basically making the same film over and over again,
IRA SACHS

Time of Your Life .
IRA SACHS

To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.
IRA WINKLER

With free e-mail, the more accesses there are, the more money they potentially make from advertising...
IRA WINKLER

They're the ones finding the latest hack for the Web, instead of finding the latest hack on the Web,...
IRA WINKLER

One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no m...
IRA GLASS

He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money,
IRA GOLDSTEIN

It was a great experience. You're sort of warned against meeting your idols, but I don't take that t...
IRA KAPLAN

This one, from a technical standpoint, isn't dangerous in and of itself. What makes it dangerous is ...
IRA WINKLER

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
IRA GLASS

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind my...
IRA GLASS

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're be...
IRA GLASS

Nearly everyone who is asked where they want to spend their final days says at home, surrounded by p...
IRA BYOCK

[Sites often get hacked simply because they present an opportunity for vandalism and not because the...
IRA WINKLER

I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot ...
IRA GLASS

This does not necessarily reflect synagogue membership. This is what they consider themselves.
IRA SHESKIN

I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
IRA GLASS

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
IRA SACHS

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature,...
IRA GLASS

You are only partly alive.
IRA LEVIN

[Dr. Ira Black, chairman of the neuroscience department at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in...
IRA BLACK

We are not going to get the critical answers, the answers that are so central to recovery of functio...
IRA BLACK

I think what we're all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more fl...
IRA BLACK

If you look at the audience, it's so hard to reach right now, it's harder to find them on TV. If you...
IRA BECKER

When Rev. Samuels was talking about the trip , it was like the divine spirit was speaking through he...
IRA APSEL

There wasn't a cricket, a bird, a bug; it was completely dead. But out of this crucible came a famil...
IRA APSEL

I was unhappy that, when Katrina hit, I was only writing checks. That just didn't seem to be enough.
IRA APSEL

If we built this place out of all of these group study rooms, this place would have looked like a ce...
IRA WINSTON

The gold standard of group-study space is Huntsman. So we got students to tell us what they liked ab...
IRA WINSTON

Van Pelt Library and Information Commons. That's our answer to this.
IRA WINSTON

I would say the experience is strong, but it's not so much better than the alternatives other compan...
IRA WEINSTEIN

The goal here is that you guys will have an effect on the final design.
IRA WEINSTEIN

Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the ...
IRA WALLACH

The SEC would have to give them a waiver.
IRA SORKIN

Sometimes juries think the judge is part of the government.
IRA SORKIN

As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in ille...
IRA SORKIN

The longer the jury is out the worse it is for the defense. If the government doesn't have the evide...
IRA SORKIN

We're not yet at that point [for a dynamite charge]. They are still talking and not killing each oth...
IRA SORKIN

I'm not sure this is a linchpin. He will have to point a finger at a much larger control group at An...
IRA SORKIN

Judge Harmon can then give Duncan whatever she likes.
IRA SORKIN

People who are getting up in years die in the winter when the days are short, and in the hours after...
IRA SOLENBERGER

It may come down to who is the best fit for the campus. We're getting positive feedback on all of th...
IRA SIMET

I hope everyone can sense that the actual people are very much what their paper profiles suggested. ...
IRA SIMET

One of the main things they bring is a lot of experience with different approaches to issues in high...
IRA SIMET

People were deceived in a brutal way: playing the AIDS card to elicit support, money, connections. T...
IRA SILVERBERG

People were generous because they thought they were helping an H.I.V.-positive former drug addict, e...
IRA SILVERBERG

The organized Jewish community wants to see Jews marry other Jews. On the other hand, they also want...
IRA SHESKIN

I wouldn't expect the Martin and St. Lucie district would necessarily close on the holidays. But I t...
IRA SHESKIN

There's been a tremendous decline of the Jewish population in the central part of the county, with t...
IRA SHESKIN

If this becomes a permanent barrier to employment and volunteering because of the use of this technology, then you're locking in the racial discrimination already in the system and multiplying its effect to a devastating degree.

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If this becomes a permanent barrier to employment and volunteering because of the use of this technology, then you're locking in the racial discrimination already in the system and multiplying its effect to a devastating degree.

Ira Glasser

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