"No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song."

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Ezra Koenig

#Song Quotes #Velvet Quotes #Manhattan Quotes

“Living from the Creator Orientation is actually more challenging. In the Victim Orientation, I didn't have to exercise conscious choice; I just reacted to my circumstances.”
“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.”
“I don't aim it at anybody specific, I don't aim my characters to make old people laugh or young people or professionals or blue collar, just whatever I think is going to be funny and it just so happens that.”
“I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that Iâ€™m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.”
“I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.”
“I've also been known to cry during MasterCard commercials.”
“Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.”
“My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.”

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