Peter Thiel Quotes

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

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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.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Strong
  • Living

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Worry

• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• 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!

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Parents
  • Support

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Teacher
  • Public
  • Office

• You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • You
  • Acknowledge
  • Heal

• 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.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Life
  • Great
  • Power

• A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • More
  • Dangerous
  • Lighthouse

• The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Creativity

• 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.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Quality

• I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Music
  • Like
  • Rock

• I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Running
  • Need
  • Will

• The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

  

  Gary Hume
  • School
  • Art
  • Going

• After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Done
  • Clever
  • Philosophical

• Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Power
  • Powerful

• If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Children
  • Health
  • Quality

• The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and the music that we create and all that is coming out of us. The music is making the show and the music is creating the atmosphere, so if you close your eyes and listen and feel what it is that's coming out of the speakers, that's the whole point.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Band

• A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment.

  

  Nicholas Davies
  • Information
  • Evidence
  • Charges

• If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

  

  Peter Thiel