Ezra Furman Quotes
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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I get pretty grumpy about TV.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
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I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.
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There was music all about us, we were growing quite forgetfulWe were only singing seamen from the dirt of Londontown.
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
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I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
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I'm just thrilled they're going to name it after her. She was a wonderful woman and I'm glad she's getting some of the recognition she deserves.
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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
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My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
