Peter Thiel Quotes
Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.
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This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.
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Looking at America, which has so much wealth and potential and yet has so many deep-rooted problems, I think it gives us, as Canadians, an opportunity to be on the world stage on the climate change issue.
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The first time I saw Lena Dunham was in 'Tiny Furniture.'
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
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Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
