Ezra Koenig Quotes
Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.Ezra Koenig
Quotes to Explore
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
Salman Rushdie -
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.
Adam Draper -
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
Lasse Hallstrom -
Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.
Laura Benanti -
I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
Carine Roitfeld
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
Sam Hunt -
The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.
Gail Collins -
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Sam Mendes -
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Carl von Clausewitz -
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
Kate Bush -
When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.
Ferran Adria
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I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.
Gallagher -
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Maya Angelou -
My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.
Fred Durst Limp Bizkit -
I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.
Manika -
It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
Aaron Belz
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Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others.
Albert Bandura -
Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!
Bill Bonner -
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. King -
Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.
Ted Yoho -
Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.
Ezra Koenig