Ezra Koenig Quotes
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
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I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.
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The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence.
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We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
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In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
