Tim Ferriss Quotes
Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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Are you in my dream too?
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My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.
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Leadership rests not only upon ability but upon commitment and upon loyalty and upon pride and upon followers...Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.
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Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.
