Lena Dunham Quotes

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

Lena Dunham

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• I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Think
  • Perfection
  • Strive

• I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Love
  • May

• I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • My Life

• What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • You
  • Counts
  • Frame

• Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Man
  • Working
  • Sweat

• You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Good
  • Money
  • Never

• Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Quite
  • Versatile
  • Brussels

• It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Time
  • Money
  • Better

• I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • School
  • Myself
  • Intelligent

• I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Myself
  • Mentoring

• Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • People
  • History
  • Politics

• And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • People
  • Military
  • Progress

• I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Books

• A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Credit
  • Striving

• If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Good
  • Door

• I'm Mexican. I eat salsa with everything.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • Mexican

• Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Trying
  • House
  • Ideas

• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Dead

• You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Believe
  • Kindness

• One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Positive

• I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

  

  Lena Dunham