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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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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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
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If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.
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The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
