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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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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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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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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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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Per correr miglior acque alza le veleomai la navicella del mio ingegno,che lascia dietro a sé mar sì crudele.
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I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.
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When the Heat were put together, there was talk of going undefeated. They didn't get off to a great start, but they found a way to win back-to-back championships.
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Some women facing 'honour' crimes require relocation far outside the reaches of their extended families and changes of identity to escape detection.
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A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
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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.
