Tim Ferriss Quotes
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.
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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.
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Kate Moss makes you dream. She has such a passion for art and the creative process.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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The path that is best for you is the path that keeps the best of you in play.
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One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
