Peter Thiel Quotes
Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
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I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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I have a hyper personality.
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Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.
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From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
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Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
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Full of years, Sir Frank's body died. The diphtheria which carried him off caused him as much suffering as it would have done an ordinary man; dying was not eased by his unique gift. He slid out into the long darkness - but his consciousness continued unabated in eight other bodies.
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My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They rely on time. When I'm carrying out a performance, it matters, for example, how long I hold one particular gesture or posture. Seriality is very important too. Performance can be used to dilate time or to repeat time. And video, in turn, has its own time.
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Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.
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Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.
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Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.
