Peter Thiel Quotes
When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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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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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
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When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.
