Gary Taubes Quotes
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
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'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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Be yourself. And every person is unique.
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
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One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
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You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.
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Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
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I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
