Lena Dunham Quotes

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

Lena Dunham

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• When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Cold

• You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Good
  • Why
  • Creativity

• I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Modeling

• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Future

• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Indians

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  

  Ed Markey
  • America
  • Technology
  • Safety

• I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Sword

• I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Know
  • Outspoken
  • Profane

• I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Life
  • My Life
  • I Can

• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Want
  • You
  • Thought

• I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Work
  • House
  • Never

• Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Country
  • Me

• When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Movies
  • Genre
  • Western

• When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

  

  Ali Liebegott
  • People
  • Fall
  • Universe

• I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Political
  • Path
  • Economic

• I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Political