Tim Ferriss Quotes
You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.
Quotes to Explore
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.
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Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.
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There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.
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What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.
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The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.
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You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.
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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
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You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.
