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 should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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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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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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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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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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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 don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I don't need to beat Faber, because his ego will always beat him. He's got excuses for every loss he's ever had.
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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that? It was one of the purest examples of God in art that I'd ever seen.
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The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
