Ezra Koenig Quotes
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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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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The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
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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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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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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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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
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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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Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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What I do is I do my job.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.
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Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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No. I think I know what his feeling is and he knows ours. He's a very important guy and we've invested a lot in him. But we can say he's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years with us. We've had a good game plan talking things over and we're moving ahead with it and we'll see where it ends. I wouldn't have a guess if something is going to work out or not.
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I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.
