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The company will never go to the market. We want to keep strict self-financing. Ingvar Kamprad
Strict Will Market Never Go Want Company Keep
I've paid an awful lot of lawyers to protect what I've built. I can only hope the money was well spent. Ingvar Kamprad
Hope Money Spent Only Lawyers Protect Well Well-Spent Built Lot Paid Awful Awful Lot
The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development. Isabella Lovin
Architecture Building Sustainable Development Financing Development Building Block Climate Block Very Green Sustainable Much Strategic Fund
Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change. Isabella Lovin
Change Only Also Social Social Change Actor Lives Save
Sweden's development is based on the equal rights of men and women. We know that investments in gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights pay off. Isabella Lovin
Rights Women Equality Men Men And Women Gender Pay Sexual Investments Development Know Equal Equal Rights Off Reproductive Sweden Based
The impacts of climate change are almost immeasurable. Isabella Lovin
Change Immeasurable Impacts Almost Climate Climate Change
The targets we all agree on - every country in the world except the U.S., Nicaragua, and Syria - will have targets under the Paris Agreement. So everyone knows what the targets should be, and then we can have a difference of opinion on exactly how these emissions will be reduced. Isabella Lovin
World Will Country Every Everyone Syria Exactly Paris Emissions Except Knows Opinion How Reduced Targets Difference Then Should Nicaragua Agree Agreement
Democracy is something you have to participate in. Isabella Lovin
Democracy You Something Participate
Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something. Jens Lekman
Funny You Beatles Relatives Uncle Every Other Enough Meet Slightly Someone Something Wedding Beat Beatles Songs Songs Weirdo Always Up Get Trying Different Playing
Hmm... at some point when I was making 'Postcards,' it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It would be about choices, fears and doubts, and it had an existentialist theme to it. Jens Lekman
Me Fears Would Would-Be Postcards Record Some About Struck Point Had Underlying Making Theme Themes Choices Doubts
I have mood swings, but I'm sure people in England have that, too. Me and my friends, we're just a bunch of happy idiots. Jens Lekman
Me Happy People Too Mood Mood Swings Sure Idiots Friends Bunch Just England Swings
It was never part of how I imagined my music, and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly devoured the Jens Lekman I had planned so carefully. Jens Lekman
Music Carefully Ukulele Never Had Part Devoured How Planned Suddenly Awe Image Watched Imagined
I started running to different albums, and I was starting with the short albums and moving on to the longer albums. I was interested in how they built up, in tempo and intensity. it made me interested in albums again, too. Jens Lekman
Moving On Me Made Too Running Tempo Longer Built How Up Intensity Short Different Again Interested Moving Started Albums Starting
If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again. Jens Lekman
Beard Will Would Would-Be Never Pick Up Again Grow Things Two
I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music. Jens Lekman
Music Me First Band Own Musical Background Tricks Would My Own Never Students Had Studied Stuff Come First Grade Know Drummer Learn Because Discover Lot Up Grade Interesting Rhythms Teaching Theory Who Things Started
My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects. Jens Lekman
Love You Song Every Aim Say Able Some About Purpose Abstract Most Subjects Heartbreak
This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think. Jens Lekman
Life Sense Think Everyone Make Because Get Stories Story Interested Depressed Reasons
You always try different versions of yourself through songwriting. It can get a bit annoying to see them walk around and do their thing when you feel like, 'I'm not that person any more.' Jens Lekman
You Yourself Walk Try Bit See More Through Songwriting Feel Like Annoying Around Always Versions Person Get Any Different Them Thing
I've never felt at home in Kortedala, or in Gothenburg, so I always felt like I needed to go somewhere and find some kind of perspective on things. Jens Lekman
Home Perspective Somewhere Kind Find Some Never Like Felt Always Go Things Needed
Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg. Jens Lekman
Culture Live Around Very Stockholm Bands Centered Place Used Cool Shrimp Bingo Copenhagen Played
I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart. Jens Lekman
Time Myself Every Every Time Relationships Out Would Something Had Like Couple Felt Real Male Friends Friendships Hang Apart Them Us Asking Why Keeping Early Started
Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?' Jens Lekman
You Song Animals Whatever Say Would About Write Wrote Does Still Math Question Did Even Why
You carry all these hurts and breakups with you forever. But there is this sort of joyful realization that the things that caused you pain were real. There is something beautiful and invigorating in holding onto that. Jens Lekman
Beautiful You Hurts Holding Pain Carry Something Onto Invigorating Joyful Sort Real Caused Were Forever Realization Things
I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me. Jens Lekman
Time Me People Thought Long Long Time Out Paranoid Became Were Harm
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
You Sense Of Humor Writing Humor Sense Distance Bit Telling About Something More Like Also Subject Stories Interested Using Serious
Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem. Jens Lekman
Sense Of Humor Problem Humor Band Sense Bit Any Little Little Bit
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