Ezra Furman Quotes
I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I like heels and make-up.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.
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I live, to get out of what I live through.
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If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.
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Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.
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Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.
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I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
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Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.
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My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
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I was a cute kid.
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My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
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How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.
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I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.
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The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.
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The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it are clear and simple. They are certain that they know what - who - created the universe and what this creator wants them to do to make our little speck in the universe perfect, even if extreme measures - even violence - are required.
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My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.
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Spiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.
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When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.
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I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
