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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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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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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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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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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My view is to try and not demonize the Palestinians. I'm not denying that there are Palestinians who fire rockets and do terrible things; I know that that happens. But to get a fundamental solution, you have to have hope on both sides.
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As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.
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I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.
