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Jens Lekman Quotes

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

Jens Lekman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: swedish
Birth: February 6, 1981

Topics

Humor Writing You Sense Of Humor

I started singing in college just as a fun thing to entertain.

Jim Nabors

Fun College Singing Started Just

When I was visiting schools, I wanted to go and see what they got. After my visit, I knew that Kansas was good.

Joel Embiid

Good Go See Kansas Got Knew

You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.

Jeremy Corbyn

People You High Forever Level

I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.

Andrew Davies

Someone University Who Tastes

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

Robert Scheer

Government Step Welfare Obligation

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

Jeff Daniels

Good Pressure Said Actor Never Big

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

Jeffrey Kluger

Age Time Money Men Man Year

Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.

Robert Zubrin

World Help Nothing Poor More Cheap

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

Masaharu Morimoto

Time Food School High School Learn

When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

Judy Gold

Woman You Street Tall See Jews

For me, the things like the Confederate flag - I just don't think that it does anybody much good, and it certainly causes a lot of people a lot of pain.

Jason Isbell

Good Pain People Me Think Flag

'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop and the ganjo rolling down, and then the fiddles and the guitar and steel, it really took an old school style where it's fiddle, steel, guitar, and mixed it with a drum loop.

Jon Pardi

Style School Guitar Boots Down Dirt