Tim Ferriss Quotes
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
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Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.
