Jeff Tweedy Quotes
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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.
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
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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.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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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.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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One with the law is a majority.
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Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.
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Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.
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If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
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I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.
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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
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There's a way in which I feel like, when you're on an enormous film and there's an enormous crew and there are three cameras and there are like 20 setups for every scene, first of all, it's very... I find it very intimidating. And it's also sort of deadening in a way.
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...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.
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The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple.
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Actors are always identified with certain parts. To some, Marlon Brando will always be the Godfather. That's just how it is, whether the character happens to be your own personal favorite role or not. You can't ever get away from it.
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Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.
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I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
