Jens Lekman Quotes
I have this part in myself that sometimes gets me into situations that can never end well, just because I want to prove to myself that I'm no good.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.
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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
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This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
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Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
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The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.
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I can be just a touch controlling!
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Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
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I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.
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I have this part in myself that sometimes gets me into situations that can never end well, just because I want to prove to myself that I'm no good.
