Ezra Koenig Quotes
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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I got no hate in me.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.
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Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.
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Because the world today is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes – into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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This is strictly personal opinion, not company policy, but I do think that we could do with having a USIA on steroids.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
