Jenny Lewis Quotes

Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.

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• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Strength
  • Motherhood

• So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Just
  • saw

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Great
  • Business
  • Drive

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • World
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

  

  Usher
  • Guy
  • Cool
  • Type

• I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • High
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Food
  • Powerful
  • Fast

• Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Up
  • Night
  • Myself

• I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Country
  • Remember
  • You

• I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People

• Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Up
  • Different
  • Education

• Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl