Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.
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Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.
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I work hard, but in spurts.
