Tim Ferriss Quotes
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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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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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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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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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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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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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.
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New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.
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The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.
