Ezra Furman Quotes

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

Ezra Furman

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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.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Game
  • Want
  • Humble

• There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.

  

  Hal Hartley
  • Desire
  • Adventure

• Never hope for it more than you work for it.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Work
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Death
  • Atmosphere
  • Presence

• 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.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Men
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Changed

• I sell a lot of them at Art on Easy Street.

  

  Andrea Brown
  • Art
  • Street
  • Sell

• My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Life
  • Artistic
  • Interfere

• Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Eyes
  • Leaves

• 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.

  

  Bradley Horowitz
  • Benefits
  • Customer
  • Target

• It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

  

  George Plimpton
  • Reader
  • Pleasures
  • Jury

• 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.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Child
  • Kid
  • Crime

• It's like with any art, there's always something new to develope, new colours, deepness, awareness, beauty. Each generation has new fields to develope, to work out, making life itself into art.

  

  Hans-Joachim Roedelius
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Generation

• To be honest, the first thing that hits you when you step off the plane in L.A. is just how eager people are to help you out here - or, at least, that's what I've found.

  

  Rachel Shenton
  • Thing
  • Honest
  • Found

• I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Women
  • Car
  • Inspiration

• Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money.

  

  Elsa Bakalar
  • Money
  • Garden
  • Mistakes

• There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and the two top guys are Clinton and Dole. What can you draw from this? Darwin was wrong.

  

  Mort Sahl
  • People
  • Millions
  • Clinton

• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

  

  Plato
  • Honesty
  • Dishonesty
  • Profitable

• Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Social Life
  • Dishonesty
  • Involves