Lena Dunham Quotes

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

Lena Dunham

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• Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Man
  • For Her
  • Give

• Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Punishment
  • Only
  • Heal

• IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Together
  • Profit

• I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Success

• I was very good in school, and my parents really would have really liked me to go to college. Instead, I went on this random journey to go be a professional wrestler.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Man
  • Understanding
  • Salary

• My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Point
  • Favorite
  • Starting

• Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Character
  • Know
  • System

• Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Believe
  • Party
  • Intention

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Job
  • Know
  • Nervous

• I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Experience
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Environment

• This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Sun
  • Ego

• Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Broken
  • Aunt

• I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• The man who esteems himself as he ought, and no more than he ought, seldom fails to obtain from other people all the esteem that he himself thinks due. He desires no more than is due to him, and he rests upon it with complete satisfaction.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People

• In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great
  • May
  • Apology

• The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• I'm rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it's been weeks since I've actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what's going on without interrupting what I'm doing.

  

  Steve Huffman
  • Answer
  • Phone
  • Texting

• I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

  

  Lena Dunham