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

• And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • God
  • Believe
  • She

• Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Words
  • Simple

• Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Night
  • Single

• Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Freedom
  • Equality

• I love America - I'm not saying that I love Americans. I don't know. It just seems a bit more optimistic. I don't know - in England, if you do something successful, people hate you. Whereas in America, if you do something successful, people will pat you on the back and say, 'Hey, well done.' People are jealous and negative in England.

  

  Andy Rourke Pretenders
  • People
  • Done
  • America

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

  

  Jens Lekman