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.

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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
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Care

• I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Ordinary

• I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Small
  • Funny
  • Fight

• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Idea
  • Intelligent
  • Acceptance

• I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Study

• 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
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Mystery

• When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

  

  Morna Anne Murray
  • Heart
  • Young
  • Youth

• 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
  • Ideas
  • Forever
  • Used

• 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
  • Trying
  • High
  • Game

• I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Parents
  • Community
  • Stories

• 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
  • Political
  • Past
  • Knowledge

• 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
  • Work
  • Drive

• I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Secret
  • Mountains
  • Rivers

• If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Why
  • You
  • Yourself

• Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • People
  • Enemies
  • Hunt

• The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I think it's definitely not up to my expectations. It was disappointing for me.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • I Think
  • Expectations
  • Disappointing

• I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.

  

  Ed Droste
  • Music
  • I Think
  • Fascination

• 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
  • I Think
  • Confrontation
  • Queer