Jens Lekman Quotes

I think that's a responsibility I have, to not leave the listener with complete dread or depressing, dark thoughts, but to leave a little door open so that you can dance your way out if you want to.

Jens Lekman

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• In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Heart
  • Best
  • motivation

• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • World
  • Wonder

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Nothing
  • Skill

• I'm going for something very raw and organic.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Something
  • Very
  • Going

• Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Name
  • Catholic

• The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Age

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Money
  • Enough
  • Bank

• You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fear

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Writing
  • Found

• As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Never
  • Driving
  • Say

• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • God
  • Words

• Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Different
  • Middle

• I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Family
  • Opportunity

• In the US, banking and finance are regulated on the federal and state level, there are multiple federal bank regulators, and there are separate securities and commodities regulators.

  

  Perianne Boring

• Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

  

  Barnabe Rich
  • Gate
  • Knocks
  • Enters

• The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran through me, and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around. I see them still; the very room, the dark parquet, the closed shutters, with the moonlight struggling through, and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Mind
  • High
  • Fear

• When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Door
  • Open
  • Close

• I think that's a responsibility I have, to not leave the listener with complete dread or depressing, dark thoughts, but to leave a little door open so that you can dance your way out if you want to.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Responsibility
  • Dark
  • Dance