Peter Thiel Quotes
Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I do have a personal life. I spend half of the week at home. One of those nights, I'll go out with some friends and have a good time. I have a day and a half at home, and love to just sit on my backyard by my pool, read a book, or do some writing. That's my vacation.
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I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
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Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal.
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Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.
