I don't believe in discrimination when it comes to animals.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 14 October 2011 source ↗
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?Originally asked
Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014
Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."
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Bob Dylan
Songwriter and musician; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2016
I don't know any songwriter like that. I'm unaware of the current debate about separating the art from the artist. It's news to me. Maybe it's an academic thing.
Alan Titchmarsh
Gardener and broadcaster
Specialisation leads to extinction. We are learning more and more but about less and less, and one day we will know everything about nothing. There is nothing wrong with being a populist. It does not have to mean dumbing down, as people think.
Albie Sachs
Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
And I get so upset when I hear that, because are you saying: Poor people only want a roof over their heads and want food? That poor people are not interested in beauty and rights and fairness and justice?
Satya Nadella
Chief executive of Microsoft
I think the cycles of demand and supply in this particular case, you can't really predict, right? The point is: what's the secular trend? The secular trend is what Sam (OpenAI CEO) said, which is, at the ... .
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