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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I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.
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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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I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
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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'm either shooting for films or commercials, attending events, or meeting people, so on and so forth.
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My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
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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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The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.
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For the record, I am not going anywhere ... I'm very happy in the Cavaliers' uniform and I'm going to be wearing this uniform for a long time, OK?
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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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The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.
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My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
