Tim Ferriss Quotes
The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I think we have to be very careful how we treat people, even when we are supposedly trying to help them.
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And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it.
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Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.
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One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.
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Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.
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The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.
