Jason Fried Quotes
The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Coffee makes me go crazy.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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People like reality; I think it's always happened from the Roman times, when people used to go to a coliseum and watch people compete against each other. I think networks and cable channels find it an easier way of producing and putting things together, because people will watch it and it's cheaper.
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Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.
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Falling in love was the easy part; planning a wedding - yikes!
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Look, if you take the best batting team in the world, they too will have their weaknesses - otherwise, wouldn't they win all the time? You mention any team to me, and I will pick out for you a dozen weaknesses. But that is not the point - these things, like fielding, running between wickets, all these are technical things, they can be learnt and practised.
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The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.
