Jason Fried Quotes
Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.
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I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.
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You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.
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All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.
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I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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I try to work with people the way they prefer.
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Singing kind of came out of nowhere.
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This anti-cop sentiment from this hateful ideology called Black Lives Matter has fueled this rage against the American police officer.
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Y’know we all have stuff that we do apart from a-ha – I have another band – and that kinda stuff sorta works for us.
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I will get out there and train harder than anyone, five times a day sometimes. You have to be a special person to do that - like, special forces, military maybe.
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Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.
