Jeff Tweedy Quotes

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

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• The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • First
  • Accept

• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • System
  • Finding

• Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Bad
  • You
  • Name

• Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Being
  • Testimony
  • Owe

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Light
  • Single

• When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • May
  • Trust

• If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Truth
  • You
  • Measure

• One with the law is a majority.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Law
  • Majority
  • Legal

• Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Children
  • Want
  • Model

• Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Creative

• Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Music
  • Poetry

• Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • May
  • Poetry

• I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Someone

• If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Why
  • Me
  • Going

• Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Important
  • Love
  • Happiness

• I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Fly
  • Just
  • Los Angeles

• The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Man
  • Question
  • Human

• We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding

• I was at a party New Year's Eve, and - no lie - at least 10 different people came up to me. One guy was like, 'I lost 30 pounds because of you.' So people just coming up to me. I don't know these people - random people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

  

  Allen West
  • Why
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.

  

  David Gell
  • Citizens
  • Warrior
  • Weapons

• If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels.

  

  Drew Sidora Jordan
  • People
  • Up

• I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

  

  Jeff Tweedy