Jens Lekman Quotes

I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I always come to that last line, and I feel that I have to wrap this up with a bit of dignity and a little tear in the eye; otherwise, the joke would be on the characters in the song.

Jens Lekman

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PeopleStupidSongEyeThinkEnd

I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.

Jo Nesbo

GoodTimeDayHappyMeThink

Russia is a big polluter.

Jesse Watters

RussiaBig

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

Jenny Slate

ChildrenMyselfChildMeWriting

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

GrowthFreedomEnemyConformity

When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that's when all these wills collide and the emotions show up.

Max von Sydow

CharacterEmotionsPlayKnowWant

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

Sky Ferreira

LieYouJust BecauseMeanReason

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

Shirley Chisholm

GirlEqualityDoctorEmotionalSays

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

Rush Limbaugh

New YorkStoryI CanNewHonest

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Brian Eno

LifeLoveCommunitySeaPeopleGay

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Bob Marley

FutureManDestinyRightDecideOwn

Like so many women aspiring and working to create the life they desire, Madam Walker lived with a vision that was beyond her time - a vision for the way that things could be, not the way they were.

Richelieu Dennis

LifeWomenVisionTimeCreateWay

It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.

Mark Hoppus

MusicEasyFindDifficultOutStuff

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