Peter Thiel Quotes
The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.
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I really like cable T.V.
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Of course, there are some things you keep personal and private because you're a human being. But on the other side of it, I ain't got time to be hiding nothing and all that. It is what it is.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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Prince Charles has doomed himself by so clearly wanting to be thought clever and cultured: the clever, cultured people don't buy it, and the people don't want a clever, cultured ruler.
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The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
