Ezra Furman Quotes

I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.

Ezra Furman

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• Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

  

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• Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

  

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• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

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• I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

  

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• What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

  

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• Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.

  

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• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

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• There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

  

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• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  

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• When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

  

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• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

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• I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

  

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• Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

  

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• I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

  

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• Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

  

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• The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.

  

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• Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.

  

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• When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.

  

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• Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.

  

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• Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

  

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• It's very important to think optimistically. You've got to think to yourself, 'I'm going to get better every day.'

  

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• I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Day
  • Dog
  • Feel Like