Jens Lekman Quotes
I would love to hear Marilyn Manson's fans or something, what their stories would be like.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
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In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
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I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers. There are heroes in the seaweed, There are children in the morning, They are leaning out for love, And they will lean that way forever, While Suzanne holds the mirror.
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We are now living in an age of literary exhaustion; we get used to the bleak landscape. Cyril Connolly said that the writer's business is to produce masterpieces; but what masterpieces have been produced in the past fifty years?
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My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.
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The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It's not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.
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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.
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I would love to hear Marilyn Manson's fans or something, what their stories would be like.
