Ezra Furman Quotes
I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made 'Transangelic Exodus' because I guess we didn't feel so friendly and boyish anymore.
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.
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For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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I believe in order that I may understand.
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There is a very serious energy agenda that we can work on together. And Brazil is a leader in the production of ethanol production and deep sea drilling for petroleum.
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[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. On my street, the kids take hubcaps - from moving cars.
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If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
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I love Austin. It's great here. I don't mind the heat.
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When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
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My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
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I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made 'Transangelic Exodus' because I guess we didn't feel so friendly and boyish anymore.
