Jens Lekman Quotes
I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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The leads are often the boring part.
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I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.
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It's fine to be sexy, but you can be sexy without licking a hammer!
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I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.
