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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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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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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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.
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I try my jokes onstage. The only way to really find out if something is going to work is to try it on stage, and I try to be careful and bookend something new with a strong bit before and a strong bit afterwards. But it's fun to run on virgin snow. I like that feeling onstage of creating new footprints and not knowing what's going to happen.
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Love will make a way out of no way.
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While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
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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.
