Ezra Furman Quotes
I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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Oh, yeah, I've seen 'Seinfeld' 1,000 times.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
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I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.
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I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
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There's an old saying in politics: You never run the same race twice. Democrats are running the same race three, four, five times. It's an old ploy, and Coloradans see through it.
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Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
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God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion.
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I never got nervous performing my own material.
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You can tell when he's out there the crowd buzz and everything, expectations.
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A car is just fast enough when you stand in front of it in the morning and are afraid to unlock it.
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Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.
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I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.
