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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

  William Gibson

  Fabulous, Favorites Things, Novelty

  Interview with Jesse Hicks, www.theverge.com. January 24, 2012.

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• The Pre highlighted things I needed to tweak. I'm glad I ran there and found the things I needed to tweak and didn't find those things out here.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Found, Needed, Glad

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• I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

  Bill Withers

  Summer, Nice, Blow

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• It's a very simple process. He [Danny Boyl] comes in the tube (subway) and then he sits with me for 3 hours every evening and then I work on something. Then later, if he likes something, I put it even more perfectly. I tweak stuff. So this happened for 3 or 4 weeks and the music was done.

  A. R. Rahman

  Simple, Done, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of the conclusion depends not only on the fact that it was reached but on how hard the theorist had to tweak the model to get there.

  David M. Kreps

  Thinking, Order, Wish

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• I mean, we're always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.

  Pat Summitt

  Mean, Always Trying, Get Better

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be some tweaks along the way, but it's not like I'll go 20 pages and throw it out and start again.

  Noah Hawley

  Writing, Pages, Way

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of 'Fargo,' Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting 'Cat's Cradle'". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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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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