Ezra Furman Quotes

My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.

Ezra Furman

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• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Way
  • Advice
  • Shopping

• Having spent two years at AOL, I would love to be able to go back to that industry knowing what I know, and I think I would be able to help the traditional media side to better understand what is coming at them, how to deal with it.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Help
  • Think
  • Know

• In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Order
  • Deal
  • Traditional

• My interests are not really with television, per se.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Television
  • Interests
  • Per

• What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • WIld
  • Traditional

• Material interests are not the only guiding light.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Light
  • Interests
  • Material

• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Future
  • Child
  • Known

• We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Public
  • Interests
  • Chairman

• Bibi wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Destroy
  • Interests
  • Bibi

• This is somebody who knows how to stand up to you and me -- who knows how to push back against special interests, who knows how to stand up when matters of ethics and integrity come to the fore.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Up
  • Integrity
  • Ethics

• Governments have a favorite phrase: 'lean and mean.' But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Interests
  • Governments
  • Phrase

• Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have lived up at all times to the injunctions of their own mystical center. For instance, when I went to Sunday school, I remember learning more about Jewish history than about God. So, once again, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the Jewish religion, it just means that sometimes people are not fed the mystical food - the spiritual food - of their own religious background.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Mother
  • Education

• Judaism reognized the home as being a co-partner with the synagogue in the nurturing of spirituality, and accorded the woman, as primary home-maker, the greatest consideration.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Home
  • Judaism
  • Synagogue

• Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Honest
  • Interests
  • Politicians

• The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Interests
  • Represents

• Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Records
  • Stills
  • Radio

• What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Global Community
  • Interdependent world
  • September, 2001

• To love you is her nature. But hers is a love from which no good may come. And your desire for her will lead only to cold, dark places.

  

  Ari Berk
  • Good
  • Love
  • Nature

• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • True
  • Success

• I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Process
  • Plan
  • Medicine

• My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Interests
  • Traditional
  • Judaism