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.

Ezra Furman

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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.

  

  K. Flay
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Dad

• We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Experience
  • Poverty
  • End

• There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• 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.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Home
  • Just Because

• 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.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • Integrity
  • Clarity

• Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Enthusiasm

• I love football, football is my life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Love
  • Football

• The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • World
  • Outcome

• 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.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Necessity has no law.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Law
  • Necessity

• Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Immigration
  • Ultimate

• 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.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Work
  • Free
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Energy
  • City
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Challenges
  • Learned
  • Lessons

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Think
  • Class

• If you're a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments - not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Change
  • Better

• Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

  

  Dan Bejar
  • Feel
  • Explore
  • Melody

• How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Time
  • Father
  • Respect

• Bachchan has been in the film industry over 35 years and he is the real king. There are many who are around for 15-20 years and like to call themselves king. There is only one king and he is Amitabh Bachchan

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Real
  • Film
  • Years

• The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Artist
  • Doe
  • Conclusion

• Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Mind
  • Persons
  • Journalist

• I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Artist
  • Separate
  • Activist