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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I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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I just want to inspire people to love other people and be accepting because I feel like there's so much going on in the world, and there's so many pressures, and there's so much negativity.
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'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.
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I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.
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Reality is negotiable.
