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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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.
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I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.
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All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you’ll fly like me.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
