Jenny Lewis Quotes

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

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• It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Control
  • Car

• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • People
  • Change
  • Dad

• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Perfect
  • Civilization
  • Rare

• In the wake of the United Kingdom's vote to 'Brexit' the E.U., we Europeans will indeed have to rethink how our Union works; but we know very well what we need to work for. We know what our principles, interests, and priorities are.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Know
  • Vote

• Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Hatred

• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • American
  • Culture
  • New

• Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

  

  Mako
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Stereotypes

• I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Leftwing

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • World
  • Picture
  • Meaning

• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Habit

• You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• In Chicago, they die for their teams.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Die
  • Chicago
  • Teams

• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Exercise
  • Philanthropy

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Game
  • Idea
  • Writer

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Learn
  • Show
  • Two

• My buddy Ron (Tater Salad) White talks about drinking my dip cup accidentally to swallow some aspirin. I was there when it happened and laughed my ass off. Was he amused? Of course not, but since it wasn't me drinkin' week-old Skoal spit it was downright comical! (p. 230).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Drinking

• That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Friendship
  • Lucky

• I think it's important for people to know that there's no such thing as a perfect relationship, you know?

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • People
  • Important
  • Relationship

• The question 'What is Life?' is... a linguistic trap. To answer according to the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

  

  Lynn Margulis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Question

• If you’re famous, I don’t — for the life of me — I don’t understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. Why on God’s green earth would you be on Twitter? Because first of all, the worst thing you can do is make yourself more available, right?

  

  George Clooney
  • Earth
  • Persons
  • Green

• I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Perfect