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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Jeff Foxworthy had that whole "You might be a redneck" thing; Larry the Cable Guy had "Git-R-Done." Some comics have that hook. Dane Cook had that super finger. So I just caught on early on. I ran with "Fluffy."
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Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving.
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Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
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Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.
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Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.
