Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
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Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.
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I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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I'm proud of my curves, my daughter, as well as the harsh past that helped shape me into the strong woman I am today.
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The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth century before mathematicians felt comfortable dealing with zero and with negative numbers, and why even today many people cannot accept the square root of minus-one as a genuine number.
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Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.
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Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
