Tim Ferriss Quotes
The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
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And our dreams are who we are.
Barbara Sher
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
Calvin Trillin
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
Zach Johnson The Fray
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
Wendelin Van Draanen
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner
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It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
Hannah Kearney
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
Laura Harring
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
Daniel Craig
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
Irwin Shaw
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince
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There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
Fabrizio Moreira
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
Ingmar Bergman
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
Queen Latifah
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The thing I miss about Russia the most is what is called 'black bread.' It's rye bread, and everyone eats it. I slice mine up and put sunflower oil and salt on it... the best thing ever. It was like a little treat for me when I was a kid.
Olesya Rulin
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Vitia erunt donec homines
Tacitus
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The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.
Kanye West
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.
Garth Brooks
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By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory. . . . Let 'desire' be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping.
Emil Cioran
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The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
Tim Ferriss