Ezra Koenig Quotes
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
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I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.
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I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.
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eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
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I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.
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I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
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You are judged on your last game no matter how many you have banked.
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Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.
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We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.
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Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.
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Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.
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There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
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All the more reason, then, to wonder why I had confessed what was so much my own to strangers, people very different from me, who would therefore never be able to understand my reasons, and who surely, at that moment, were speaking ill of me. I couldn’t bear it, I couldn’t forgive myself, I felt I had been flushed out.
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The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option to start again, to create a new beginning. In films for adults, there are no ways to change things. What happened, happened.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.
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My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
