Jenny Lewis Quotes
When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
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Oh wie ferne war mir damals gerade dieser ganze Resignationismus!
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If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'
