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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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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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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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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I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.
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While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
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The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
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My parents were very protective of me and my brother, so they never talked to us about the situation in our country.
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I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.
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Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
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The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
