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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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'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've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.
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I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
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I see my actors as my collaborators.
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You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.
