Ira Glass Quotes

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.

People always like to make me seem taller than I am.

I think that people sort of stereotype me as the blonde 'Baywatch' girl who's always in a swimsuit, so, I think, to tell my story - that I got up to 175 lbs., was so depressed I couldn't get out of bed - will show that life wasn't always good for me.

I wanted to try and get out of the stereotypical Geordie girl. I stopped wearing fake tan and wore WAG dresses. But I was really miserable.

I knew I had to be the gay stereotype that was on the front of the papers every day. And I did my job well. I played the game.

The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen.

People tell me what to do every single day. They think I'm boring. I'm Disney kid. So, there's that.

Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.

Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

People go to the movies instead of moving.

I suppose when some people see you on TV, they expect you to be this flamboyant, champagne-drinking stud. But I'm not like that.

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

Maybe it's just L.A., but [high school girls] look like men, like they would have kids and s - t.

I was a normal kid. I rebelled. But I've never been a liberal. And there have been all kinds of efforts to make me one. I've not bothered to tell any of these stories. Folks, we all face them.

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.

If you're not active - and I'm not active - and you don't watch what you eat, you can get big as a horse.

They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.