Peter Thiel Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.
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I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
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I will never retire.
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I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.
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In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
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I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.
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I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
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I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so that you're supposed to feel, Oh, he's the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what's more enjoyable.
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The rich must live more simply, so that the poor may simply live.
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There should be no thought of burdens in the mysterious interweaving of one life with another. It must be that the weakness in oneself which one thought pressed most heavily upon others to their harm was in reality a blessing to them, while on the occasions when one thought oneself doing great good, one was as likely as not doing great harm; if self-congratulations were present, sure to be doing harm.
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Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
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You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.
