Jeff Tweedy Quotes

I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.

Jeff Tweedy

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GoodGreatBetterFeelDoneAlways

I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends.

Joe Wurzelbacher

LifeFriendsSometimesNeverLived

I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.

John Lydon

GoodCarMusicHateListeningBack

When I started publishing - my first novel came out in 1990 - there were no options for publishing science fiction in Canada. There were no small presses, and the large presses simply would not touch it at all.

Robert J. Sawyer

ScienceSmallCanadaScience Fiction

I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?'

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

CommunityRiverThoughtPollution

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

Anita Elberse

SportsTimeMeDataPublic Domain

My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.

Maurice Allais

LifePeopleMeEconomicsWorldFind

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

Jeff Hawkins

BelievePlantYouEvolutionKnowUs

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

Michael Jackson

ChildYouPlaceCreateNeverSee

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

Meryl Streep

PeopleActingGoSeriousNeedWhere

Shawn Kemp was the player that I grew up watching, when he was with the SuperSonics.

Amar'e Stoudemire

WatchingUpPlayerHeGrewShawn

I think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted supporter of the possible attack on Iraq. You're either with George Bush or you're against him.

Simon Hoggart

ThinkYouDownPossibleHimSide

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Ritchie Blackmore

GuitarBackUsedFeedHeOverrated

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