Peter Diamandis Quotes
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.Peter Diamandis
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I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.
Rachael Taylor -
Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
Rachel Platten -
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
Edith Head -
Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.
Nathan Myhrvold
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For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
Adam Carolla -
I really believe in the power of music.
Abigail Washburn -
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. Salinger -
Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
Iris Apfel -
I literally hate working out.
Olivia Munn
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This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
Harrison Birtwistle -
We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.
Eden Hazard -
Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.
Patrick Lencioni -
Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.
Nancy Kress -
The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
Bruce Springsteen
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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.
Mike Tyson -
Our companies are based on mutual respect and loyalty to each other. And that works — when you really mean it, the people who work with you know it, and when they do something special you pay them a little extra.
Doug Morris -
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
Nas -
The end of the 'tech bubble' in the year 2000 is, of course, widely recognized, as the NASDAQ stock index erased three-quarters of its value between 2000 and 2003.
David Autor -
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
Peter Diamandis