Ezra Furman Quotes
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.
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I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
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I'm just grateful to people who are willing to admit how bad things feel for them.
