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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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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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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GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
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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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In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach and steer clear of the web of corruption, kickbacks and special favors.
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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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Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.
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My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school.
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Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
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I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
