Tim Ferriss Quotes
I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.
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Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.
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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
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I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.
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The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.
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I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.
