Jason Fried Quotes
When you write like everyone else and sound like everyone else and act like everyone else, you're saying, 'Our products are like everyone else's, too.'
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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
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The only thing you ever have is now.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.
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All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade-wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.
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The media are using a national treasure-that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.
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Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In fact, in a study of history the illusion of inevitability has serious consequences that it is one of the few things that both conservative and socialist historians can agree on.
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Liberty, n. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.
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'Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.'
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If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?
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The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.
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You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.
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I like dresses for night; I like after-party more than party. I like the mystery; I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. I think, also, that you make women dream.
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My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.
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There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
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My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children, it wasn't too hard to pick that much cotton. But my father, year after year, didn't get too much money and I remember he just kept going.
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It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.
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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
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The only person I'll marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.
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These actors like Danny McBride and Jonah Hill are so good at improvising, and when they do it, it's this fun moment for the audience. It makes them feel like they're watching something fresh and new.
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When you write like everyone else and sound like everyone else and act like everyone else, you're saying, 'Our products are like everyone else's, too.'
