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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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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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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I have no guitar technique.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I've got the best lead man, I really love my lead man.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.
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I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
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Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
