Peter Thiel Quotes
Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.
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One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.
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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
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Every woman who proves that it is not about gender but about excellence paves the way.
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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
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Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
