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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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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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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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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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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I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.
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For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.
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When you get your show - that's what 'King of Queens' was for me. That was my part; that was my show - I was meant to have that part.
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I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
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The narrow hallway was lined with framed photographs while the far end was dominated by a faux movie poster for Gone with the Wind starring Ronald Reagan sweeping Margaret Thatcher off her feet while a mushroom cloud bloomed behind them. She promised to follow him to the end of the world. He promised to organise it.
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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.
