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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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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I know that song writing is probably the most mystical of the things that I do, in a sense that I'm not sure where it came from or how it started. It's something that I just knew how to do. It's something that just happens.
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In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.
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Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.
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I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing.
