Jens Lekman Quotes
I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy.
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.
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I get up, I get down All my world turns around Who is right? Who is wrong? I don't knowI've got pain in my heart Got a love in my soul Easy come, but I think Easy goI need you so Although times I move so slow
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Don't spend money on things... spend money on experiences. You'll enjoy life a lot more!
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I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
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More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.
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I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy.
