Jenny Lewis Quotes

I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

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• On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Character
  • Stage

• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• Tom Brokaw was never young.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Never
  • Young
  • Tom

• People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Money
  • High

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Banking

• Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Strong
  • Wife
  • Leaving

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Opinion

• When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Know
  • Find

• We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Self

• I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Good
  • Important
  • May

• There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Family
  • House
  • Interesting

• Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Create
  • Shoe

• God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • God
  • Man
  • Day

• When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Wife
  • Woman
  • Husband

• If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

  

  Kanye West
  • World
  • Music
  • Artist

• I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Guy
  • Hand
  • Write

• As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • World
  • Work
  • Job

• We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.

  

  Ian McHarg
  • Life
  • World
  • Earth

• Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Shadow

• Not even on finding himself in a well-ordered house does a man step forward and say to himself, I must be master here! Else the lord of that house takes notice of it, and, seeing him insolently giving orders, drags him forth and chastises him. So it is also in the great City, the World. Here also is there a Lord of the House, who orders all things... (110).

  

  Epictetus
  • World
  • Great
  • House

• I moved straight from kindergarten ,at age 4, to graduate school to my position at Lake Forest ,at age 26. No break. No bumming around Europe. No peace corps. No corporate cubicle job. No stint as a Starbucks barrista.

  

  Davis Schneiderman
  • School
  • Moved
  • Graduates

• I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

  

  Jenny Lewis