Lena Dunham Quotes

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

Lena Dunham

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• Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Understanding

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Opportunity
  • Vision

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Alone
  • Wall

• When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Enjoy
  • Situation
  • Kid

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

  

  Ted Williams
  • People
  • Hope
  • Guy

• I really wanted to be a writer.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Wanted
  • Writer
  • Really

• Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Know
  • Understand

• Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Attention
  • Present
  • Immigration

• At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thinking

• At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Energy
  • Matter
  • Diet

• I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • American
  • Science
  • Small

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Fear
  • Practice
  • Worry

• It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Die
  • Passion
  • Sex

• The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

  

  William Beebe
  • Men
  • Water
  • Mood

• Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Thinking
  • Agree
  • Disagree

• My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Mood
  • Fitness