Jens Lekman Quotes
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.
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I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space.
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Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.
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I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
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I don't want music to be a museum.
