Ira Thor:
CLASS OF 1995
Fair Lawn High SchoolClass of 1995
Fair lawn, NJ
Ira's Story
Ira is from Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Ira's schools include Fair Lawn High School. Ira later attended William Paterson University (B.A. in Communications (Broadcast Journalism)) .
Music Ira likes includes Goo Goo Dolls, The Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters. Books Ira likes include Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House. Movies Ira likes include Disney Pixar, Family Man, The Identity Of Vengeance. TV shows Ira likes include 60 Minutes, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Off the Map.
One of Ira's favorite quotes is:""I want to be a lion. Everybody wants to pass as cats." (Counting Crows, August & Everything After)
"Failing to plan is planning to fail."
"Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
"If you need two jobs there's something wrong with your first job."
---John Chaney (August 5, 1992)
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
---Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
"If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying âCircus Coming to the Fairground Saturdayâ, thatâs advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, thatâs promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayorâs flower bed and it makes the nightly news,...Expand for more
thatâs publicity. And if you get the mayor to laugh about it in the news story, THATâs public relations.â
"Talking is the act of moving your mouth. Speaking is the act of having something to say."
---(Ira Thor, sometime in the late 1990s)
"Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers."
--Unknown
"Until parents become more actively involved in their kids' education and demand performance, until students are truly motivated by their peers, families and their society to excel, no amount of money will solve the problem."
--Quote on why the $100 million Facebook donation will not help the city of Newark, NJ and why the culture of education needs to change in some communities.
"Hereâs to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. Theyâre not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you canât do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
--Apple, Inc. 1997 Think Different ad campaign".
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