Tim Ferriss Quotes
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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Put the car away; when life fails What's the good of going to Wales? Here am I, here are you: But what does it mean? What are we going to do?
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Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.
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Of course, the male-directed films make more money.
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.
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Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.
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The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.
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Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.
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Reality is negotiable.
