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
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• 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
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • First

• 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
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• 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
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• 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
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Literature

• 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
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Man
  • Joy
  • Watch

• It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • You
  • Nice

• 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
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• 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
  • People
  • Christian
  • Saying

• 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
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Religious
  • Movies

• 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
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Software

• Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difference
  • Location
  • Mobile

• 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
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Service

• I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Done
  • Experience
  • American

• My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.

  

  Eminem
  • Mind
  • Travel

• Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.

  

  Bernice King
  • Political
  • Moral

• If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Myself
  • Air

• Any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state, with secure, recognized and defensible borders. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Identity

• I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Driving
  • Cars
  • Fleet

• 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
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