My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
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Unknown
...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from...
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Robin R. Meyers
History never repeats itself, historians do.
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Lee Benson
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
More Quotes By Ezra Koenig
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.
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.
I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before.
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
