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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My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
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I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.
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In times of drought water brings us a major problem despite its essentiality, and this especially so where dams are the chief watering points, because as the waters recede the cattle have to tread over ground that is ever wetter and boggier and more difficult to cross. In their weakened condition cattle go down in this deep mud. Every day it is necessary to ride out and check these boggy dams and try to pull the cattle out.
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There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'
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A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.
