Ezra Koenig Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing.
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True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
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There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.
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Instagram is just a highlight reel... Ten percent of the time, Chan and I have a lot of fun. Ninety percent, we're really boring.
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
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I used Atlantic like I was supposed to.
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When I was a teenager, I used to watch 'Beverly Hills 90210' - which is totally aging myself - and I'd try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.
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Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.
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I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.
