Ezra Koenig Quotes
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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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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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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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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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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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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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.
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If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.
