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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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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Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
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Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
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My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
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When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.
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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.
