Peter Thiel Quotes
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
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My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot in the water and there was an alligator in there, and she wouldn't put her foot in the water.
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You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short.
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There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who's coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are.
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Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
