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God is close to the brokenhearted, and God lifts up the lonely. That was a message that was explicitly quoted to me and was part of my upbringing: Brokenhearted people and poor people and people who are in trouble should be your focus, and you should be on their team.
— Ezra Furman
Tags: people, you, me, god

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I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.
— Ezra Furman
Tags: like, feel, dog, day
I grew up attending a Conservative day school, Solomon Schechter, until I was about 14, and going to a Reconstructionist synagogue.
— Ezra Furman
Tags: about, conservative, school, day
I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.
— Ezra Furman
Tags: down, way, sometimes, best
I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
— Ezra Furman
Tags: about, thinking, teacher, education
Jews like to write and sing. In America, a lot of us have been eager to show that we're part of American culture. But it all goes back to King David writing Psalms.
— Ezra Furman
Tags: like, america, king, culture
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