Jens Lekman Quotes
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
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I'm a great singer.
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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
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I love the idea of a website/blog being a catalyst for propelling people out into the world, and I enjoy it most when people write me to say that their world looked or smelled or felt a little different because of something that I wrote.
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I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.
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I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and a nice cream soda. It is fantastic. So I have to be careful or I'm going to just get really fat.
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I have a very nice voice.
