Peter Thiel Quotes
Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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I really like performing for people.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.
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It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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'Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.'
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We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.
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Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.
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On long car rides, we would always listen to the 'Blues Brothers' soundtrack and try to emulate everything that Aretha Franklin was doing. There was soul and grit in it that I think a kid from the suburbs really needed.
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If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
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Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?
