Jens Lekman Quotes

I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

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• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Wonderful
  • Directors

• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

  Sam Harris
  • You
  • Human
  • Wellbeing

• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Live
  • Blessing
  • Holy

• I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Play
  • Missing
  • Airplane

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Home
  • Dream
  • You

• I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Music
  • Christmas
  • Loved

• I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Speak

• I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• My forte is awkwardness.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Awkwardness
  • Forte

• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Doing
  • Matter

• It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Job
  • Government
  • Border

• People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Mind
  • Cheap

• Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Purpose
  • Present
  • Beginning

• Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Up
  • Listening

• Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

  

  John Muir
  • Space
  • Heaven
  • Sun

• I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Work
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