Peter Thiel Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.
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Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
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The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
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Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.
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Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women don't know the offside rule.
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The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
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Ὁ δ' ἀφθόνητός γ' οὐκ ἐπίζηλος πέλει.
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If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.
