Tim Ferriss Quotes
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
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Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
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They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
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I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.
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We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
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“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.”
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I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
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What you're thinking about is what you are being.
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The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.
