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.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Turn

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Art
  • Nature

• There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Force
  • Democratic
  • Ideal

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Thing

• I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Best
  • Kid

• Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Good
  • Food
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Movie

• Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Violence
  • Gun
  • Epidemic

• Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• '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.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Fighting
  • Drinking

• 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.

  

  Jeff Bewkes
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Stock

• In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Single
  • Opinion
  • Design

• I have to confess I'm addicted to Sky Sports News. Just the music can pull me in. And then whether it's badminton in the Czech Republic, snail pushing or mole hopping, I'm hooked.

  

  Andrew Buchan
  • Music
  • Sports
  • Sky

• Glossier - our content, our products - it's for all for you; it's ours.

  

  Emily Weiss

• Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

  

  Louise J. Kaplan
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wish

• Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Popular
  • Share
  • Bear

• When I'm in the U.K., I have a personal trainer who is wonderful, and she's hard-core and makes sure I get up in the morning and go.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • She
  • Morning

• I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

  

  Dieter Rams
  • Hand

• Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Long

• If you want different results, do not do the same things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Want
  • Things
  • Same

• Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Work
  • Brain
  • Muscles