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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I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
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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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There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
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The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.
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I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.
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But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
