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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Men
  • Want
  • Player

• There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Book
  • Finish
  • Almost

• I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Great
  • Practice

• I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Box

• Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Information

• Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

  

  Betty Edwards
  • Knowledge
  • Teacher
  • Empathy

• I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Popular
  • Writer

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

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Way
  • Dress
  • Reflect