Jeff Tweedy Quotes

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Jeff Tweedy

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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

• Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Happy
  • Wisdom
  • Human

• 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

• 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.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Think
  • Greatest

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

  

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

• People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • People
  • Horses
  • Genetic history

• 'Skins' meant so much to so many people. It was so much part of its time, and I was so young.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • People
  • Time

• We’re the US Senate here to help people, and if we’re not helping people, we should go the fuck home.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet 30 m and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.

  

  David Livingstone
  • Space

• I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Dance
  • Sing
  • Cope

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

  

  Jeff Tweedy