Peter Thiel Quotes

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

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• You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • You

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • World
  • Country
  • Black

• Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • Experience
  • True

• 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.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • Pressure
  • Key

• I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Media

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • First
  • Worst
  • Cheat

• Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • News
  • White

• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Best
  • Moment

• Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Stop
  • Never
  • Company

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Want
  • Doing
  • See

• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Hand
  • Find
  • Jump

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Work
  • Like
  • Hoard

• As mayor of Anchorage, with 43 percent of the state's population, we have worked on a variety of projects from road projects to renewable energy to a variety of things.

  

  Mark Begich
  • Energy
  • Road

• Sex was a trap, a snare. It was for animals.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Sex

• Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • True
  • Law
  • Alone

• I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Hate
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Belief
  • Athlete
  • Competitor

• I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Believe
  • True
  • Nature