Lena Dunham Quotes
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The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
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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.
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Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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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.
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There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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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.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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Γίγνωσκε σαυτὸν καὶ μεθάρμοσαι τρόπουςνέους. νέος γὰρ καὶ τύραννος ἐν θεοῖς.
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Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again- Unless ... Summer's ardent rustling Is like a festival outside my window.
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I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.
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The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'
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Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.
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I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.
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I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.
