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.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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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.
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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.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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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.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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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.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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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.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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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.
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I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.
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We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
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There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.
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The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
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I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
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Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line.
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Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.
