Ezra Furman Quotes
It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
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Let's face it. I'm an open book.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.
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Women put guys through tests all the time.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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You love who you love, and I can't help that I like guys.
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I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few.
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God's knowledge extends to things not in existence, and includes also the infinite.
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The wraith of Sigmund said. 'You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.'
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Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
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Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.
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I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.
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A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
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At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.
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President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
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It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.
