Jason Fried Quotes
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.
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It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
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We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages rigorous independent evaluations of our program. Our mission is too important to operate in any other way.
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Science grows like a weed every year.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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The way to have power is to take it.
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'Rules dieters' find limitations oddly freeing, because the restrictions create a framework that's easy to follow. Essentially, rules dieters don't do well when they're let off plan, mainly because they are usually emotionally attached to food in some way.
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A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.
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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
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I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.
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Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.
