Peter Thiel Quotes

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Men
  • Doing
  • Ambition

• People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Misconception

• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Literature

• My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Make
  • Plan
  • Canada

• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Revolutions

• My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Influence

• Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Science
  • Energy
  • Problems

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • God
  • Children
  • Care

• I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Creating

• The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Girl
  • Dark
  • Years

• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • God
  • Family
  • Thank God

• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Faith
  • My Life

• I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Good
  • Best
  • New York

• At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Day
  • End
  • Wealth

• A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • World
  • Together

• Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • World
  • Different
  • Song

• We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Summer
  • Commitment

• All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • World
  • Work