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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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 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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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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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 like to prepare each tour in a different way.
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
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I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.
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Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
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President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don't support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!
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There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
