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

• If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Today
  • Society

• I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Character
  • Woman

• It will be another disaster, after Irangate. Not only that, not only this longest Arab - Israeli confrontation: but also the most important and successful war of attrition which still continues in the south of Lebanon.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Important
  • War

• He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.

  

  Livy
  • Men

• Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Sin
  • Profound
  • Grace

• 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