Tim Ferriss Quotes
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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Denn der Kapitalismus ist schon in der Grundlage aufgehoben durch die Voraussetzung, daß der Genuß als treibendes Motiv wirkt, nicht die Bereicherung selbst.
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Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
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Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. … humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.
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The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
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There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.
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For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
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My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.
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To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.
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My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy
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The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.
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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.
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Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
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The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.
