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.Tim Ferriss
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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.
Garth Brooks -
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.
Yahya Jammeh -
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
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.
Oscar Isaac -
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.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
Questlove
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde -
The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
Caitriona Balfe -
So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
Aaron Ashmore -
I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
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.
Lao Tzu -
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.
Vanessa Bayer
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
Kara Swisher -
When I was singing, everybody liked me.
Nana Mouskouri -
When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
Carly Fiorina -
In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz -
Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
Alex Lifeson Rush
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I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.
Jared Diamond -
When I play ball, I play hardball.
Kirstie Alley -
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
Matt Gonzalez -
I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.
Lisa McMann -
I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.
Edwidge Danticat -
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.
Tim Ferriss