Ezra Furman Quotes
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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People love gentle larceny.
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week.
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People play with pain all the time.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.
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For 8 years now I've been addicted to cold turkey. When I tell people I'm quitting cold turkey, they say,'What are you quitting?', I'm fucking quitting cold turkey.
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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I have worked with many, many talented and dedicated people.
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I've been this voice of a lot of upbeat dance tracks, but people don't really know me.
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They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.
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'We are going so slow,' Noah said, craning his neck to observe the inevitable queue behind them. 'I think I just saw a tricycle pass us.''Rude.'
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I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.
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It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.
