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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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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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'm understated in my approach.
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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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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.
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Ever since I found out I got the part on 'Gilmore Girls,' my life has been changing in so many ways. It seems as though all we get is good news. I'm just so grateful to be a part of it. It's a wholesome show with an edge. I have no idea how we pull it off.
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