Jason Fried Quotes
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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We are trying to turn this program around so there is a great deal of enthusiasm with all of the kids. Fortunately they are all pushing each other.
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So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.
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I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.
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