Ezra Furman Quotes
I feel like one thing that messed me up was living in a homophobic and transphobic society, and just being the object of mockery and disgust in your average sitcom or movie or person at school.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I love working with women.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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Think with your whole body.
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I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.
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Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
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Through knowledge, you can develop the economy. Without knowledge, you cannot improve a society.
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I feel like one thing that messed me up was living in a homophobic and transphobic society, and just being the object of mockery and disgust in your average sitcom or movie or person at school.
