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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.


Timothy Ferriss

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A.J. CHILSON This is so incredibly short-sighted.
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IRA SACHS I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know i...
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EVELYN LAU Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that y...
BRYAN CRANSTON Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very h...
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MAE WEST The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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TIMOTHY LEARY In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased th...
TIMOTHY NOAH Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain
TIMOTHY LEARY Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
TIMOTHY LEARY The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all cla...
TIMOTHY WEST The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may...
TIMOTHY NOAH There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants o...
TIMOTHY MURPHY Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea...
TIMOTHY NOAH Not only was there a John Doe No. 2,
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH John Doe No. 2 .
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so tha...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH just keep your sense of humor and be yourself.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people b...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH I didn't say that ... but they didn't prove it.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congr...
TIMOTHY NOAH The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it ...
TIMOTHY NOAH This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would....
TIMOTHY HUTTON The only time we got sugary cereal was when my mom went away for the weekend and she bought us Frost...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT