Lena Dunham Quotes
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
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History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.
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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.
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My mom knows pretty well how I see her.
