Jason Fried Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
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I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
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I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.
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Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
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Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.
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The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.
