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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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 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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Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.
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They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.
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No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.
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You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.
