Ezra Furman Quotes
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.
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We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
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I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and asked for something. And she wouldn't even take her sunglasses off! She was so mean to me. Not mean, but, like, guarded. I don't blame her, though.
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I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
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There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
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Gonna pull in the shutters on this heart of mineRoll up the carpets and pull in the blindsAnd retreat to the chambers that I left behindIn hopes there still may be love left to findStill may be love left to find.
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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Give me to die unwitting of the day,And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear!
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really love and enjoy spending time with, it's just such a rare thing. You hear so many horror stories.
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More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.
