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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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.
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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.
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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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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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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.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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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.
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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.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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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.
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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.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
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I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.
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The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.
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Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
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Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.
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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.
