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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• My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
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  • Independent

• I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

  

  Verne Troyer
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  • Think
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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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.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
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• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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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.

  

  Jack Canfield
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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'.

  

  Yuna
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• The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
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• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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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.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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• If the home is good, all will be good.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• I never thought I was a very good manager.

  

  Barry Diller
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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.

  

  Jack Bowman
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• Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

  

  Ofra Strauss
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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.

  

  A. C. Benson
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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.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
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• Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

  

  Lord Mountbatten

• It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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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.

  

  Jens Lekman
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