Tim Ferriss Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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My hair is naturally blond and thin, so I like to give it some texture. Sexy, dirty bedhead is good for blonds.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.
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If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
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When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.
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I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.
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Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
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Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.
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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
