Peter Thiel Quotes
Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I get homesick.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.
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I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
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A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.
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I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough. When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.
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The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they’ve been at other times.
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Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
