Ezra Klein Quotes
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
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When you return to your homes rise up to the height of a generation of men worthy of a free Government, and we will carry out the great work we have commenced. I return to you my sincere thanks, soldiers, for the honor you have done me this afternoon.
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There are at least 18 dead in this barn. We've found the remains of at least 18. I'll think about this for months. I'll see it when I try to sleep. This is something you can't forget.
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I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see how information flows through those circuits and how it's transformed, we might have a much firmer grasp on why our brains make decisions the way that they do. If we get a handle on that, maybe we can overcome some of our limitations and at the very least we'll understand why we do what we do.
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The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.
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You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.
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Bella [Hadid] is also very naturally gifted in beauty so she can also go whenever she wants to go to the gym.
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I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.
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Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.
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I'm where I wanted to be. Not taking anything away from the Cleveland Browns ... but I'm a Bengal, and I like staying in Cincinnati. It turns out that I got my wish.
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In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.
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A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
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If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.
