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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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner
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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.
Vikram Seth
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
Otto Schily
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
Adam Hochschild
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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.
Karl Lagerfeld
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
Damien Chazelle
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
Patrick J. Adams
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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!
Hampton Sides
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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.
Salma Hayek
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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.'
Frances McDormand
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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.
Randall Terry
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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.
Hannibal Buress
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
Jack Dangermond
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
Sam Altman
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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.
Walter Pater
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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.
Pat Robertson
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I didn't want to do something typical.
Beck
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isn't the way that could help find a political solution.
Igor Ivanov
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Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
Hakuin Ekaku
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I had this very strict rule when I began auditioning that I wasn't gonna do a thicker accent, because it was like, 'I can't tell if it's supposed to be funny because he talks funny.' And now I feel like there are certain characters that I could play that could involve doing a thicker accent, as long as it's specific to that character.
Kumail Nanjiani
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I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
Mark McGwire
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Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
Jen Lancaster
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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.
Peter Thiel