Tim Ferriss Quotes
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
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Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
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I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.
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I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
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By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.
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It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'
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Robespierre listened to me with terror. He grew pale and silent for some time. This interview confirmed me in the opinion that I always had of him, that he unites the knowledge of a wise senator with the integrity of a thoroughly good man and the zeal of a true patriot but that he is lacking as a statesman in clearness of vision and determination.
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Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there...the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.
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If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
