Tim Ferriss Quotes
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
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To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
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I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
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Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.
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When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
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I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.
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The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
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The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.
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My interviews are very pointed. I'm an active participant; I will kindly interrupt people. But I've learned there is nothing people won't tell you if you ask in a compassionate and legitimately interested way.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
