Jens Lekman Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
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I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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Some people don't know how to take some of the everyday, regular things that they have going for them and turn it into something else.
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Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.
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Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.
