Ezra Furman Quotes
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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
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I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.
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If intelligent robots are our competitors and, to some extent, cerebrally alike - enough for us to discuss their ethical standing - why would they be above the law? Should they not contribute to our societies, too? And why would they be exempt from taxes?
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Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.
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The victory of the Cuban Revolution will be a tangible demonstration before all the Americas that peoples are capable of rising up, that they can rise up by themselves under the very fangs of the monster.
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It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
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Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.
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I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
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You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
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I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
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It’s a pleasure that you don’t outgrow the anthology.
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Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.
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When something is so damaged or something is just not right, you can't fix it in a moment. The only thing is time.
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I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.
