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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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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The only way I know to get involved in things is to dive into it.
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We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.
