Peter Thiel Quotes
In Silicon Valley, I point out that many of the more successful entrepreneurs seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger's where it's like you're missing the imitation, socialization gene.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
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I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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I never say someone is powerful.
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Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.
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In Silicon Valley, I point out that many of the more successful entrepreneurs seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger's where it's like you're missing the imitation, socialization gene.
