Peter Thiel Quotes

The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'

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• I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Support
  • Grateful

• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Lived

• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Think
  • Painting

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Father
  • Me
  • Habit

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Taken
  • King
  • Only

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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  • Mother
  • Parents

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Socialism

• Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Good
  • Smart

• I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Giving
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  • Present

• I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • You
  • Stage

• I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Food
  • Everybody
  • Georgia

• I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Diverse

• It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. But then it occurred to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, and instead I went off to see if I could find a Baby Ruth candy bar, a far more profitable exercise.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Life
  • Time
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• Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Important
  • Question

• Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won't use the word. He's made war on the war on terror.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • War

• I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Reading
  • Doing
  • Mountain

• The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Acting

• The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'

  

  Peter Thiel
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