Jens Lekman Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
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More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.
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I like people in general, which is why it's fun for me to interact with my fans.
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... men are not astonish'd at the operations of their own reason, at the same time, that they admire the instinct of animals, and find a difficulty in explaining it, merely because it cannot be reduc'd to the very same principles. ... reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls.
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The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.
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I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.
