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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People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.
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I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
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I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure.
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I don't want music to be a museum.
