Ezra Klein Quotes

If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

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• My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Working
  • Strength
  • Give

• When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Political
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Man

• Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

  

  Ovid
  • Money
  • Man
  • Lies

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• 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.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Sleep
  • Dead
  • Remains

• 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.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Why
  • Brain
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • High
  • Want

• Bella [Hadid] is also very naturally gifted in beauty so she can also go whenever she wants to go to the gym.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • Want
  • Gym
  • Gifted

• 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.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Home
  • Football
  • Chance

• Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Flesh
  • Obesity

• People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

  

  Niki Tsongas
  • Name
  • Lived
  • Bearing

• Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • History
  • Watches
  • Idiot

• With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Long
  • Cry
  • Sadness

• I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Study
  • Sky
  • Idiot

• Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Spirit
  • Noise
  • Traffic

• If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

  

  Ezra Klein
  • Idiot
  • Traffic
  • Exulting