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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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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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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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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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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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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Uber is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis; to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege.
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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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I don't know if I feel a responsibility to encourage women, I just do! Yes, I think all of us chicks should be inspired and create! In whatever way that inspiration comes, we should shine! Honestly, I feel the same way about men.
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Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
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For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.
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But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.
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I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.
