Jenny Lewis Quotes
I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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If you don't work through the things that haunt you early, they'll stay with you for the rest of your life.
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To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.
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Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentlemen, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life.
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Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.
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I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
