Jens Lekman Quotes
Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?'Jens Lekman
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
Lars Onsager -
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
Dan Brown -
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
Tao Lin -
I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
Yair Lapid -
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
Laura Hillenbrand -
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
Hannah Arendt
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
Kate Brown -
My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
Sam Smith -
I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
Nadia Giosia -
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
Lady Gregory -
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar -
There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
Rainn Wilson -
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
Naomie Harris -
Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
Dan Savage -
All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
Larry Cohen -
I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.
Hailey Bieber
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Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
John Major -
Photography is without mercy - though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
Nick Harkaway -
There's no question that if we stay on planet Earth and never leave, that eventually we'll be wiped out.
John M. Grunsfeld -
'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'
Dan Simmons -
There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.
Chris Pavone -
Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?'
Jens Lekman