Ezra Klein Quotes
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
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If you can't find dry shampoo, baby powder is great.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
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Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
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When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.
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Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
