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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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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One says a lot in vain, refusing;The other mainly hears the 'No.'
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India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous.
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I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.
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Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.
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Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.
