Jason Fried Quotes
Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I really don't want to be known as a fashionista. I'd like to be someone more than that.
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As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
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Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
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Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.
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When will you women understand that one isn’t insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won’t allow one to have.
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My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
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I didn't really know what to expect. I had been told about the scale of Cannes, but nothing could have prepared me for just how many people would turn out for our photo calls or for the opening ceremony.
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My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs... I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.
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I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.'
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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
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People's guards were taken down because there was a new wrinkle. Never, ever give out your PIN number.
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They all ask: Why? Why is it that this man’s name Ai Weiwei can never be typed on a Chinese computer or the whole sentence will disappear?
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
