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 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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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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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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I was a really, really depressed kid.
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An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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Once we're past 2012 I think it will be very difficult NOT to be enlightend
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We opened Panda Inn on June 8, 1973. The whole family - my parents, a brother and sister - all worked at the restaurant for free. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment in San Gabriel and didn't have any money.
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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.
