Ezra Koenig Quotes
Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
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For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.
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I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through the process and also protected me and made sure that when it came time to actually make 'Whiplash,' I was able to make exactly the movie I wanted to make.
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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.
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Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.
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'When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.'
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The usual reason companies are funded or valued on the stock market for not having a current profit is because the investors believe there will be a future profit.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
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My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.
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In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia.
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Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans. They enlist to serve their fellow citizens who express their will through elected representatives, not an unaccountable defense establishment.
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Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.
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Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.
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Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.
