Lena Dunham Quotes

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

Lena Dunham

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• It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Control
  • Difficult
  • Run

• The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Idea

• Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Clear

• I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Play
  • Like
  • Movies

• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• Find something that makes you happy and go for it.

  

  Zendaya
  • Happy
  • You
  • Find

• I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Strong
  • You
  • Foundation

• I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Done
  • Death
  • Best

• Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Yourself

• There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Perfect
  • I Can
  • Throw

• Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Me
  • Memories

• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Act

• I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Read
  • Knew
  • Spider-Man

• The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Working
  • Well

• Football is the ultimate team sport. You're dependent on 10 other people on the field to have success on a particular play to get to the common goal, which is the win. On a set, we need everybody doing their job and pulling their weight.

  

  John David Washington
  • People
  • Job
  • Success

• We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mind

• We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fierce

• I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

  

  Joseph Barbera
  • Hope
  • Stop
  • Cat

• The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.

  

  George Preston Marshall
  • Bunch
  • Runners

• I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

  

  Lena Dunham