Peter Thiel Quotes
All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.
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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.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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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.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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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.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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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.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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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.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.
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Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.
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He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
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It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.
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You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.
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All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.
