Tim Ferriss Quotes
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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The moment we finished shooting for 'Bruce Lee,' my wife Upasana reminded of a pending holiday.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way.
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The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.
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When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
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Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.
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If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.
