Tim Ferriss Quotes
I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
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Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.
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My parents have put in a lot of efforts for me. Whatever I am and wherever I am is because of them. I won't do anything to displease them.
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I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.