Jens Lekman Quotes
Contemporary Swedish artists that chose Swedish as their language tended to sing about certain topics and use words I wanted to avoid.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
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The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
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I watched her and her Aunt Lina stare at each other for what seemed a long time. Something was being said. Something important. Something that had to be said without words.
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You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.
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Contemporary Swedish artists that chose Swedish as their language tended to sing about certain topics and use words I wanted to avoid.
