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Yes, it was a good year. It could have been a lot better.


Ira Corliss

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CONNIE KING It could have been better.
DARRYL JONES It could have been better.
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ANDREW CHESLEY It's a lot better than it would have been two weeks ago.
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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