Jens Lekman Quotes

Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.

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• The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Vision

• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Nice

• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Treat

• In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Animals
  • London
  • Elephant

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Very
  • Our
  • Self-Awareness

• I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • People
  • Stop
  • Late

• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • Director
  • Video

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Think
  • Wrong
  • Old

• Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Important
  • Powerful
  • Dreams

• New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • America
  • Small

• I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Working

• I don't like beating people on the head with the message. I don't like standing on the soapbox.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • People

• The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Up
  • Live
  • May

• My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.

  

  Kristy McNichol
  • Up
  • She
  • Happy

• There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • Feeling
  • Stop

• I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.

  

  Doris Day
  • People
  • Life
  • Amazing

• Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Feeling
  • Lonely