Ezra Koenig Quotes

It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other people who they perceive to be richer than them, whiter than them.

Ezra Koenig

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MusicPeopleGuiltEasyWhiteOwn

My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.

Joe R. Lansdale

LifeFatherMeMy LifeDoingPerson

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WorkFatherHomeMeWorldLibrary

We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm involved with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Jesse McCartney

ChildrenResearchFoundationThink

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

John Edwards

SonDownAprilGroundWadeSlapped

They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you wrote a musical, they would fully fund it and put it on the main stage with full costumes and a set and everything, and my roommate said we should totally do that.

Andrew Sean Greer

PastLovedSomeoneYouSaidReason

As you all know, Prince is no longer with us. It is extremely difficult for me, and that is why I have chosen not to discuss it.

Mayte Garcia

MeYouKnowWhyDifficultUs

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

Jeffrey Archer

MeWritingBookComebackImportant

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

John Zorn

ReadingThinkingNameDoingReady

In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.

Amitava Kumar

JusticePeopleIndiaIslamIgnorant

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

Stephen Hawking

WeatherPredictMoreDaysThanFew

At the end of the day, you have to do what's best for you, and I support any guy who stays home.

Stefon Diggs

HomeBestDaySupportEndYou

I had the wonderful good luck of having Jimmy Gandolfini as my mentor and David Chase as my godfather, two of the most talented guys in the history of television.

Steven Van Zandt

GoodHistoryLuckGood LuckMentor

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