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.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Technology
  • Data

• 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.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • America
  • History
  • Figure

• Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Think
  • Space
  • Matter

• 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.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Honest

• 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.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Long
  • Love
  • Best

• The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Home
  • Man

• I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • End

• Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • Simple
  • Cricket

• 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.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Talk
  • General
  • Offensive

• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Red
  • Storm
  • Weapons

• 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.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • May
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Community
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Future

• Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Life
  • May
  • Republican

• Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Wonder

• When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

  

  Frank Frazetta
  • Art

• After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • People
  • Done
  • Weird

• Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Cancer
  • Smoking

• There are some projects where you have to just start doing it, and, after a while, the show starts telling you what it wants to be. You put your spirit in and, after a while, something bigger takes over, and it turns out to be much more fun and creative than what it was at the beginning.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Fun
  • Beginning

• Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

  

  Brendan Sexton III
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Peter Thiel
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