Ezra Furman Quotes
I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
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The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.
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I feel more comfortable being confrontational and authoritative. It's important for women in this business.
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Of course, it's always complicated to shoot a sex scene.
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I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.
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Bill Withers, Van Morrison and Marvin Gaye are pioneers in popular music for the last century, and these are people who have influenced me as well, so it's pretty flattering. I've got a long way to go to reach anywhere near what those guys have done. But it's a good encouragement.
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I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.
