Peter Thiel Quotes
I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Only God can stop Kobe Bryant.
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Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.
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You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.
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Women put guys through tests all the time.
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You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.
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I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.
