Ezra Furman Quotes
Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.
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I sell a lot of them at Art on Easy Street.
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
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We try to be extremely explicit about the data we are collecting and how we are storing it, and we let the customer know the benefits to them. We let them know that if they are willing to let us target ads to them, they will get more relevant content. If we are vigilant and explicit.
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
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The fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child.
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Common sense is not always common practice.
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A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.
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I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
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People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
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If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition.
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It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.
