Ezra Koenig Quotes
Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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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.
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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.
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Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
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Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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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.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.
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I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.
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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.
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Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
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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.
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That's the great thing about today, having smartphones to stay in touch and share experiences. Knowing that whilst there may be thousands of miles between you, it's almost like they're there. That's the coolest thing, and that's how I stay in touch with the people that are important to me.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.
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Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.
