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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Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things.
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The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.
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Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.
