Tim Ferriss Quotes
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
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My tactic is to make eyes at someone.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
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Who will you have to become, to achieve all you want?
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
