Jenny Lewis Quotes
When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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I am proud of what I've done.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
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I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.
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My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
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Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.
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It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.
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Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
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If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.
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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.
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I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I'm either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a script, editing a video, shooting a video.
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Poor captive bird! Who, from thy narrow cage, Pourest such music, that it might assuage The rugged hearts of those who prisoned thee, Were they not deaf to all sweet melody.
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Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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The variety of polyprenol phosphate sugars may turn out to be as large as that of sugar nucleotides.
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When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.
