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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
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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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Repenting and coming unto Christ through the covenants and ordinances of salvation are prerequisite to and a preparation for being sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost and standing spotless before God at the last day.
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I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.
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Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives.
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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.
