Jens Lekman Quotes
A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.
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Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
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Every idea has its time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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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.
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The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
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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.
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I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
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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.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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It costs you something to do good!
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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
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'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!'
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one currency, one language and a single unified representative national administration. Never again in England would sovereignty descend to the merely regional level. Never again would the idea of England and the unity of England ever be challenged.
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I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.
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I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.
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A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.
