Jens Lekman Quotes
The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
Damon Wayans
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
J. J. Abrams
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
Fran Kranz
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
Kate Upton
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. Lewis
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
Kate Moss
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
Samantha Harvey
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
Zac Brown Band
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
Brown Campbell
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One can not impede scientific progress.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
Manika
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
Yolanda Adams
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What little return documentary filmmakers get often comes in the form of recognition by their peers and the critics who influence doc audiences around the country.
Yance Ford
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It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.
D. H. Lawrence
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The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.
Charles A. Murray
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The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.
John Roger Stephens
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The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.
Jens Lekman