Ezra Furman Quotes

Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.

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• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Music
  • You
  • Timeless

• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Work
  • Think
  • Serious

• I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Hope
  • Amazing
  • Day

• Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Care

• If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • End
  • Yourself

• All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

  

  Nas
  • Important
  • Help
  • Single

• I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Picture
  • Loved

• In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Political
  • Stop
  • Military

• I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Success
  • Enough
  • Encouragement

• There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Great

• Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

  

  Kent Beck

• I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Education

• The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine.

  

  Lily James
  • Famous

• In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • May
  • Hope
  • House

• I can't wait to work with Peter Capaldi as the next 'Doctor.' I know him from old; he's such a lovely man and will be brilliant in the role. As long as he tones down the Malcolm Tucker swearing.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Work
  • Long

• Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • America
  • Today

• It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Pretty
  • Band

• There was a period in my life where most of my musical career was spent in a band that was very aggressive, and there was sort of a wall of volume all the time.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Career

• It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

  

  Elizabeth Aston
  • Imagination
  • Achieved
  • Scrape

• Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Band
  • Mission
  • Rock N Roll