Ezra Furman Quotes

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

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• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• Our message of the day is service does not need a title.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Day
  • Service
  • Need

• Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Victory
  • Defeat

• I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Job
  • Old
  • Interview

• Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Unknown
  • Most
  • Rather

• I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Career

• If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ignore
  • Politician
  • Conniving

• When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Girl

• Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Work
  • Black
  • Racism

• The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Great
  • Small

• Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Blunt
  • Admonition
  • Recipient

• I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Wants
  • Songwriter
  • Great Songs

• If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • Help
  • Wish
  • Arrogance

• I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Picture

• NHL clubs have not wanted to go to the Olympics, and we have been saying that for months if not years.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Years
  • Saying
  • Been

• It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words . . . If children will read comics . . . why isn't it advisable to give them some constructive comics to read?.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Constructive

• I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • I Think
  • Songwriter
  • Performer