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.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Success
  • Bored

• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Distance
  • Improving

• 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.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • World
  • She
  • Think

• 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.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Man
  • Better
  • Idolize

• While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Secret

• I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Father
  • Know
  • More

• 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.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Live
  • Today
  • Best

• The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Literature
  • Difference
  • Read

• 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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Learn
  • Nothing
  • Arrogant

• I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Like
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  • Criticism

• And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Want
  • Things
  • Leave

• I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • People
  • Time
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• Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• 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.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Children
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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?

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Business
  • Age
  • Past

• By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

  

  Edwin Bailey Elliott
  • World
  • Wonderful

• The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.

  

  Hal Porter
  • Australian
  • Self-respect
  • Heart-of-gold

• No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Couple

• The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Visitors
  • Telephones
  • Destroyers

• I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• I would love to hear Marilyn Manson's fans or something, what their stories would be like.

  

  Jens Lekman