Ezra Furman Quotes
The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.
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My work ethic is, I think, from my farm life.
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I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.
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The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
