Jens Lekman Quotes
Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
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I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I'm just happy when people want me to work for them.
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Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.
