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Jens Lekman Quotes

I like short beards. Not a big fan of the bigger beards.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Short Bigger Big Big Fan Like Fan

My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.

People Me Creating Two Things Serve

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Mistake Learn Proactive Approach

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.

Future Past World Present Mission

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

First Amendment First Amendment

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

Work Best Money Job Think You

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

Power Me American Promotion Serious

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

Life Heart New York Parents Writing

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

Home Live Intellectual Something Far

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Think Being There Everything Own He

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty Luxury Things All Things

The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.

People Me Country Write Rural Fact

I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

Job Insecurity Looking Wake Up Think

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