Ezra Furman Quotes
We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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I do believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
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Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
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Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
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As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
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A vicuna alive is worth more than one dead. Now it is like a goldmine.
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Besides almonds or granola, I don't eat a lot during the day - juicing is what gives me energy.
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My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis.
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The Islamic State has proven that terrorists can seize and deploy modern military equipment on lesser-armed opponents.
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It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.
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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
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In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.
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We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.
