Ezra Furman Quotes
I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.
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It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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I love football, football is my life.
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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Necessity has no law.
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Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.
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The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath.
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Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.
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Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.
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Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
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Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.
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When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.
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I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.
