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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things. -- Ed Harris
The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'. -- Ben Schott
I grew up in Los Angeles, where long drives on packed freeways make everyone a fan of radio and, particularly, of America's national treasure, National Public Radio. -- Leila Janah
Public radio has always been so powerless. -- Bob Edwards
Cable would not translate into the public radio universe. -- Juan Williams
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been. -- Harold Brodkey
When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise. -- Ira Glass
I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time. -- Ira Glass
Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable. -- Nellie McKay
I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old. -- Sarah Vowell
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations. -- Earl Blumenauer
For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to. -- Teddy Thompson
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. -- Ira Glass
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been -- Harold Brodkey
I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure. -- John Hodgman
I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers. -- Sarah Vowell
I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made. -- Sophie Blackall
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system -- Tom C. Clark
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system. -- Tom C. Clark
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. -- Michael Medved
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public? -- Bill Wyman
For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up. -- Ira Glass
You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit! -- Pharoahe Monch
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio. -- Al Franken
We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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