Peter Thiel Quotes

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

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• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Empowerment

• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Baseball

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• A well begun is half ended.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Half
  • Well
  • Ended

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• My record speaks for itself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Record
  • Speaks
  • Itself

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Blessings

• The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • First

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Me
  • Obsessed

• We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Coffee

• Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Believe
  • Lifting

• Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Patience

• The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Country
  • Game
  • Strong

• Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

  

  Tacitus
  • Death
  • Pain
  • Valor

• I'm scared of screwing up my kids.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Scared
  • My Kids
  • Screwing up

• That show Biggest Loser is a dumb show. If I wanted to see fat people struggle with their weight, I'd go to my family reunion!

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Family
  • Struggle

• Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.

  

  William Somervile
  • Fall
  • Proud
  • Lying

• When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Spiritual

• Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Dumb