Ezra Furman Quotes
I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people.
Ezra Furman
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
K. Flay
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
Orson Welles
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
Imelda Staunton
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
Albert Einstein
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
Wayne Thiebaud
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It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.
Allen Iverson
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
Cory Booker
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Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
Mark Levin
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The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.
Kerri Strug
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I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
Brian Andreas
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
Charles Baudelaire
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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.
Plato
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Humility is not weakness, but strength under control
A. R. Bernard
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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.
Louise Erdrich
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I think celebrities suck.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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If there's any sort of superpower we desperately need right now, it's this transcendental force that reminds us of union and connection. I think that superhero stories come from somewhere. We make these aspirational images, to remind us that we have this capacity in ourselves already. I think that electricity can run through disconnected wires. Superheroes, every single one of them, come from the world of imagination and they're played by humans, they're written by humans, and it's in the belief that we invest in these characters that they come to life.
Ezra Miller
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I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people.
Ezra Furman
