Jens Lekman Quotes

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

Jens Lekman

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• Every idea has its time.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Every

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Film
  • Weird
  • First

• There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Long
  • Together
  • Food

• The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Review

• I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Live
  • Doing
  • Count

• I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Employees

• Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Transformation
  • Transition

• I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Confident

• Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Feel

• It costs you something to do good!

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Good
  • You
  • Something

• When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She

• 'You are a weak reed, Recruit Green!' Helve shouted. 'Weak reeds make for badly woven baskets! This platoon will not be a badly woven basket!'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Green

• I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

  

  Larry Wall

• The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • Dream
  • Blessed

• The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Live
  • Hope

• I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

  

  Lee Hazlewood
  • Movie
  • Career

• I do believe that Israel is covenant land. That's very controversial, but I read the Bible literally, and I believe that God gave them that land, all the way back to Deuteronomy.

  

  James Dobson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Bible

• We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

  

  Bob Cousy
  • Kids

• I don't know how much thought is behind it, but it seems to me highly effective the way that Facebook will let somebody tag a photo with a friend's name, then others who are a friend of that friend can perhaps immediately see the photo, and the friend, in the meantime, has a chance to wander back and un-tag it.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain
  • Friend

• 'Everything is already there in....' How does it come about that an arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - 'No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that.' - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • True

• A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

  

  Jens Lekman