Ezra Furman Quotes

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

Ezra Furman

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• The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Job
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• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
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• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
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• My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Need
  • Artists
  • Director

• I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

• This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Responsibility

• There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.

  

  Gary Herbert
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• We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I should make it clear that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and, as you know, we were colonised, not colonisers.

  

  Clare Short
  • Responsibility
  • Irish

• If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

  

  Diplo
  • Kids
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  • Cool

• As CEO, I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • Responsibility

• It's not just about checking the box on corporate social responsibility. It's about hitting our bottom line.

  

  Peggy Johnson
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• Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

  

  Kevin Bacon
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• Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

  

  Debra Lawrance
  • People
  • Up
  • Strong

• Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Women
  • Help
  • Responsibility

• What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Culture
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  • Independent

• I don't like the word 'ladylike.'

  

  Emilia Wickstead

• If you look at firms like General Electric or other large companies, they don't just do one thing; they do many different things to generate sources of revenue.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Different

• I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are all of those things. We tended to only be the best friend or the neighbor in everybody's sitcom.

  

  Angela Robinson
  • American
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• I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Responsibility
  • Artists
  • Notion