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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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.
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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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When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.
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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
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If you ask me what's Aventura's forte, I'll obviously say its capacity to deliver hits.
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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
