Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
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A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
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I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.
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Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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No one is 'the next' anyone, especially if that person is still here, doing their thing, as she Mariah clearly is. The comparisons people have made to me are so flattering, but I think it's insensitive to the people I'm compared to.
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The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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I always want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side.
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Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner.
