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.Peter Thiel
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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.
Jackie Robinson -
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
Natalia Tena -
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.
Abraham Verghese -
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Karen Bender -
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Laura Bell Bundy -
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
Kate Williams
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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.
Lake Bell -
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.
Tatyana Ali -
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.
Tanya Fischer -
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.
Madeleine Albright -
'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
Caitriona Balfe -
To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
Edmund Phelps
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
Rahm Emanuel -
I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
Kate Mulgrew -
As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
Hamid Karzai -
Life is such a tragicomedy.
Oleg Cassini -
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.
Naomi Watts -
I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
Ian Hislop
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
Oscar Wilde -
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge -
Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can be represented musically. Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.
Claude Debussy -
When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.
Jenny Downham -
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.
Peter Thiel