Peter Thiel Quotes
If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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It's so important to work with material you can really mold and milk and create and evolve.
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I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'
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It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
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I sometimes go to a movie and eat my popcorn and turn my brain off. I love those movies. But the movies I like to be in, for the most part, are the ones that challenge you.
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If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.
