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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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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Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
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Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies.
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Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
