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  • Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! -- J. K. Rowling
  • I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things. -- Dennis Ritchie
  • Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it. -- John Travolta
  • 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
  • Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! -- J. K. Rowling
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13. -- Nicki Minaj
  • Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes. -- Amy Cuddy
  • Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference. -- Anthea Turner
  • I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began -- Bobby Knight
  • Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model. -- Dana Goldstein
  • No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, If I kill my muscles now, I'll never get wrinkles. Can you imagine? -- Salma Hayek
  • 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
  • Try to find if something out there is similar. If it's already being done, now you need to find out if you can do it better or cheaper. If you have a good product and no one's buying, improve it and tweak it. -- Cameron Johnson
  • 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
  • You can't fix a fundamentally broken law; you've got to replace it. That's why Congress can't save Obamacare with a few tweaks, despite what its defenders say. No quick fix can correct the main flaw: The law takes power away from patients and hands it to bureaucrats. ... -- Paul Ryan
  • 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
  • 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
  • Odd words floated back to them over the hundreds of heads. "Nobility of spirit"..."intellectual contribution"..."greatness of heart"...It did not mean very much. It had little to do with Dumbledore as Harry had known him. He suddenly remembered Dumbledore's idea of a few words, "nitwit," "oddment," "blubber," and "tweak," and again had to suppress a grin... -- J. K. Rowling
  • Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do. -- Joe Torre
  • 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
  • We still have very little understanding of how we can tweak form or shape at the genetic level. We certainly haven't unlocked those secrets. -- Mitchell Joachim
  • Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems. -- Jeff Goodell
  • For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it. -- Greg Berlanti
  • Web banking lets you monitor your spending, tweak your budget, schedule payments, and more, particularly if you marry your online bank with the personal-finance management tools available online. -- Jean Chatzky
  • Since truffle oil and caviar aren't always in the budget, learning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations can help you transform those ordinary ingredients into the extraordinary! -- Marcus Samuelsson
  • If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up. -- Brandon Thomas
  • Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak. -- Markus Persson
  • There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim. -- Jennifer Hale
  • Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line. -- Gene Luen Yang
  • A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there. -- Annette Bening
  • That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo. -- Todd McFarlane
  • If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. -- Clint Eastwood
  • Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand. -- Sergio Garcia
  • Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it. -- Nicholas Kristof
  • I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full thing. So I would go in maybe once every two or three years, and he'd do a little here, a little there; tweak you, like you tweak your car. Then I became the plastic surgery poster girl. -- Joan Rivers
  • Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own. -- Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • I mean, we're always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better. -- Pat Summitt
  • To make my meal in a box taste better, I decided to tweak the logo, rather than the ingredients. -- Jarod Kintz
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech. -- John Colton
  • 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
  • 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
  • When chasing a dream, make sure the price is truly worth paying - if it is, go for it, if not, tweak your dream a little and then go for it. -- John Avery
  • 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
  • There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own. -- Howard Hesseman
  • 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
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