Peter Thiel Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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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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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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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 don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
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Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
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I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.
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I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.
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You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.
