Peter Thiel Quotes
Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.
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If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?
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Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.
