Ezra Koenig Quotes
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!
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I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.
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Do your best and forget the consequences.
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There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.
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Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human rights violators and ethnic cleansers, just below the Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin league. But people don't care. Trump goes on Jimmy Fallon's show and that spineless puff of a talk show host praises Trump for being such an "off the cuff" talker and providing "fresh air." Fresh air! What's fresh about racism? it comes out of the darkest dankest rottenest human cellar!
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It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
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Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.
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I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing.
