Ezra Furman Quotes

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

Ezra Furman

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• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• 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.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Me
  • Single

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• 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.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Life
  • Time
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• I live, to get out of what I live through.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Live

• If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Friends
  • Passion

• 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.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  James Sanborn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Science

• Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.

  

  Charlie Bell
  • Life

• 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.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Up
  • Music
  • Garden

• I was a cute kid.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Cute

• 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.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Family
  • Father
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Pierre Coffin
  • Life
  • Simplicity

• I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Political
  • Karma

• The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Pain
  • Justice
  • Jesus

• You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

  

  David Bowie
  • World
  • Thinking

• Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity.

  

  Ciputra
  • Creativity

• I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Nature
  • Human

• Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Unique

• I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Thinking
  • Education
  • Teacher