Ezra Koenig Quotes

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap; I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

Ezra Koenig

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I feel like everybody's always out to get me, and that's a weird feeling.

Jessica Simpson

MeWeirdFeelFeelingAlwaysOut

I'm constantly dodging people in L.A. There are some people I don't ever wanna see again, but if you live where you grew up, you're running into people constantly.

Jenny Lewis

LivePeopleYouSome PeopleSeeUp

I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

John Fusco

GreatTimeMeStoryAmericanNew

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

Stanley Baldwin

WomenChildrenWishYouEnemyMore

When people learn that I'm a qualified primary school teacher, I'm often met with surprise and a list of questions, including, 'How do the children react? How do you do it?' Children are some of the most open and inclusive individuals. It's often us adults who have difficulties in accepting difference.

Sinead Burke

ChildrenTeacherSchoolPeopleLearn

The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.

Joseph Prince

LifeMyselfExperiencePainThoughts

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Denzel Washington

WeirdYouActingKnowCelebrity

I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies.

Doug Liman

ExperienceGivingMoviesAudience

Even though brands are created by people, they belong to the corporations.

Debbie Millman

PeopleBelongEvenCorporations

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

Austin Stowell

FeelKnowWantNeverRidingOut

It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.

Sun Yat-sen

WorkFutureSocialismCapitalism

I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.

Peter Capaldi

DownKnowWillEventsTurnWhere

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