Peter Thiel Quotes
I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
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I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
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You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.
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Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.
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To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.
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It is my belief that action under this section should be suspended until the Congress can reconsider the entire question in the light of the experience that has been developed since its enactment.
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'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian.
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I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.
