Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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There is no such thing as going on to something bigger and better than 'M*A*S*H' because there is nothing bigger and better. I have done the best I can do, and been in the best I could be in on television - with the best people.
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When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.
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You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.
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Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.
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It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.
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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
