Jeff Tweedy Quotes
I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.
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In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
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You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic.
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I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
