Ezra Koenig Quotes
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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What I do is I do my job.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They've been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that's something they've upheld.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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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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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I'm not a Victoria's Secret model who can wear anything.
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There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.
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My job is exhilarating. It's challenging. I find that the governance part of it, the decision making part of it - actually comes - comes pretty naturally. I think I've got a great team. I think we're making good decisions. The the hardest thing about the job is staying focused. Because there's so many demands and decisions that are pressed upon you.
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There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
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People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.
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I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.
