Jens Lekman Quotes
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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There's a real power in heels and a good dress.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.
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That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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One swallow maketh not summer.
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Summer is always best through a window.
