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.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Mom

• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Want
  • Food
  • Three

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Power

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• 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.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Death
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Cinema
  • Educated
  • Genres

• I get pretty grumpy about TV.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Pretty
  • TV
  • Grumpy

• 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.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Child

• My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • True
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Real
  • School
  • She

• There was music all about us, we were growing quite forgetfulWe were only singing seamen from the dirt of Londontown.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Music
  • Growing
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Blessed

• 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.

  

  Jake Roberts
  • Serious
  • Stupid
  • Snake

• I think record companies are criminals.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Thinking
  • Company
  • Records

• Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Joy

• A little girl loves her bird – Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Like
  • Bird
  • Helpless

• The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged 'truth' which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life

  

  Paul Auster
  • Today
  • Salvation
  • Hunger

• My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Soul
  • My Life
  • Records