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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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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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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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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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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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.
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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised-the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.
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All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.
