Lena Dunham Quotes
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.
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I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
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I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.
