Tim Ferriss Quotes
The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?
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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.
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Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.
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We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
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It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.
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I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again.
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From one moment to another one can lose heart.
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Savoir n'est rien, imaginer est tout.
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Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
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I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people through a camera or on a stage. I just can do it. I just have an intuitive sense of it. So I love doing that, I love going into that trance.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
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The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'
