Jenny Lewis Quotes
And you're not happy but you're funny and I'm tripping over my joy. I just keep on gettin up again.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
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I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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In living we die, in dying we live.
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And you're not happy but you're funny and I'm tripping over my joy. I just keep on gettin up again.
