Jason Fried Quotes
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.
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Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.
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I have a couture body.
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It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
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Although an important amount of repairs and conservation works have been carried out right from the British period in India these have not compromised to the original qualities of the buildings.
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The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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The fact is there are no stories I can tell my friends that will make them feel better. History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.
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When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.
