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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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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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.
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It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.
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Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
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One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
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Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
