Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (Lykke Li) Quotes
If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
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The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
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I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. And it was a steady job.
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Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
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It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.
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'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'
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It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.
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I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.
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We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.
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Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
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There are several revenue streams that are near and present that could support a private space station, including in-space manufacturing, microgravity research, and tourism - for both individuals and sovereign nation astronauts - and in-space supply logistics.
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Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.
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My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.
