Tweak Quotes

• Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?

  Nic Sheff

  World, Care, Greatest Gifts

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

  Alan K. Simpson

  People, Tables, Taxes

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• You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Character, Stories, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

  Tyra Banks

  Top Model, Moments, Walks

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• Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

  Francine Busby

  Aggravation, Broken, Usual

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• I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Html, Scripts, Now And Then

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• And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it?So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am.

  Nic Sheff

  Rip, Believe, Who I Am

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

  John Lennon

  I Hate You, Way, Knows

  Song: How ?, Album: Imagine

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• I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.

  Kobe Bryant

  Player, Matter, Injury

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• There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Sound, Mastery

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• Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

  J. K. Rowling

  1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (published in the US as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,1998), ch.7.

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• All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

  Umberto Eco

  Beautiful, Writing, Devil

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes directors feel like they have to justify that hat that they are wearing they've got on as a director, and they come in and they tweak and interfere.

  Gary Oldman

  Hats, Directors, Sometimes

  "Interview: Gary Oldman And Morgan Freeman" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2005.

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• I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Night, Practice

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• There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow you.

  Rachel Maddow

  Order, People, Way

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Long, Planets, Trance

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I'm interested in the way our world is defined by language, the living word. How restrained we are by the concept of language, but when you tweak it a little bit your eyes can be opened and your world is totally changed.

  Miroslav Penkov

  Eye, World, Language

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Technology, Media, Greek

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.137, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending time with that particular set of characters, I can't help but think about all the ways the book could be different, the small, insignificant tweaks that no one but me would ever notice.

  Jillian Medoff

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• As long as you have a director, that's your feedback. It's the director telling you, "Okay. That was great! Okay. Can we add a little? Can you tweak it like this? Can you make it more high pitched? Can you give it a little growl?"

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Long, Giving, Directors

  "Gabriel Igelsias and Carlos Alazraqui Talk Disney’s PLANES, Voicing Their Characters, Voice-Over vs Stand-Up, Improv, and Their Upcoming Projects". Interview, collider.com. August 7, 2013.

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• I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

  Chris Brown

  Song, Ideas, Creative

  "Just Jared" Interview, www2.justjared.com. September 4, 2008.

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• My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Couple, Lines, Gains

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• You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits.

  Scott Belsky

  Long, Incentives, Rewards

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• With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.

  DJ Spooky

  Imagination, Technique, Digital

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A lot of the techniques are similar in MMA. You just have to look at your opponent and their technique and tweak your game plan a little bit.

  Dan Henderson

  Games, Mma, Technique

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