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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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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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 have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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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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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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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 crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
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Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.
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I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
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I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.
