Tim Ferriss Quotes
It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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I don't like youBut I love you.See that I'm alwaysThinking of you.Oh, oh, oh,You treat me badly;I love you madly.You've really got a hold on me.You've really got a hold on me, baby.
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We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.
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I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
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Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
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It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.
