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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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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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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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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After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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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...
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A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.
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I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
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We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.
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William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.
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If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.
