Ezra Koenig Quotes

Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

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• I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Gratitude

• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• I think beauty can be everywhere.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Everywhere

• You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Start

• I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Light
  • Positive

• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Kids
  • Parent
  • Excel

• Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Time
  • Day
  • Step

• 'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Press

• I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Never
  • Working
  • Year

• Lunch is for wimps.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Lunch
  • Wimps

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • War
  • Law
  • Democracy

• It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Laugh

• The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • You
  • Irish

• I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Spring

• I don't care how much you're working out; when you go to put on that bikini, you're like, 'Oh no!'

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Care
  • Working
  • Bikini

• It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Way

• OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Trying
  • Dad
  • Mom

• No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun.

  

  Michael De Luca
  • Fun
  • No Matter
  • Award

• Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Way
  • Dress
  • Reflect