Jens Lekman Quotes

I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious.

Jens Lekman

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• One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • American
  • Alone
  • Dark

• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

• I love to push myself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Push

• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Empowerment

• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Winter
  • Oil
  • Juice

• My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Great
  • America

• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Brave

• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Say
  • Give
  • Physician

• The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Career
  • Me
  • Ideas

• I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Pride

• The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Meal

• Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • True
  • Me

• Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Law
  • Hands

• It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Long
  • Want
  • Legacy

• I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

  

  Nia Long
  • Feeling
  • Serious

• Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Art
  • Serious

• I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene 1979. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.

  

  Roger Alan Painter Christian Death
  • Together
  • Serious
  • Realizing

• I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

  

  W. Earl Brown
  • Life
  • True
  • Hero

• I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Women
  • Gay
  • Say

• I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Serious