Tim Ferriss Quotes
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
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It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
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When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.
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Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.
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You know, when you're 23 and you get pissed, I mean drunk, you can just go crazy and it's all right. But if you're 43 and you do it, it's like your best friend's mother who used to come in pissed and everybody was really embarrassed. It just doesn't go down well, you know, after a certain age.
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We were never really able to crack the script, and we finally realized it was more important not to make the movie if it wasn't right.
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I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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The fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class.
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Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.
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The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
