Ezra Koenig Quotes
Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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I got mobbed at a pizza parlor. Kids and especially girls went going crazy. They got so excited.
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I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.
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Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.
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I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.
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I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.
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In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without a producer, which isn't necessarily what fans wanted. But I had to do it because I felt it was in my destiny or whatever.
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I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.
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I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.
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My chronology is terrible. Work with William Shawn must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press.
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Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.
