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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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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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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At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.
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I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.
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I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.
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Acting was just something that came really naturally to me, and it was just something that I knew how to do.
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It's going to be tough, to be honest. We still have guys that we can take care of ourselves, but with Houston out front, it's going to be tough. But you never know what can happen.
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I have a very nice voice.