Jens Lekman Quotes
I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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I like to get real pretty.
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For every single show you do, make sure you go out and literally try to beat what you did the day before. It's something that you can incorporate into everything you do. If you're constantly trying to beat your best, over time it will help you grow.
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Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
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Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?
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I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.
