Jeff Tweedy Quotes
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
Quotes to Explore
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
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I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.
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I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
