Tim Ferriss Quotes
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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You've got to be realistic.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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The climate informs the character.
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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
