Jens Lekman Quotes
I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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I hate downtime.
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When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
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People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.
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I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
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In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.
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I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.
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These dogs need help. Its that simple they need help they need a trailer and a truck and I have it let go.
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Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.
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I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.
