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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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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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 don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.
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Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.
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I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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I'm obsessed with trompe l'oeil - the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.
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What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.
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The way you live your life depends on you.
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My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
