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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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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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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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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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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On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.
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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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I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.
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I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.
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My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world.
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I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
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All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.
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We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.
