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.
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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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Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.
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My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.
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I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
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Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!
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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.
