Peter Diamandis Quotes
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.
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I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
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It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
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I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, and now I come back as an adult and I can really get the flavor of the city, and I love it.
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Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out of the way.'
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I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
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I personally won't have anything live in my house that can't move the car on street-sweeping day or grate carrots. Plus, I don't mind being talked to harshly. I want to be challenged by something more complex than a Wheaton terrier.
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When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.
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Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
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I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
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All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.
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Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
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More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.
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Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.
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this time, in hello mello, we expressed that melodies are like our girlfriend and our mother. uhm.. thinking once again, it seems perfectly fine to express it that way. that’s right. our fans, my beloved melodies.. who behaves like my mother and my girlfriend. this relationship is really precious and lovely. and because of that, there were issue that made both of us upset.. i, we, would love to have people’s love and attention. we came to where we are right now, from 2 years back. and for sure, we would want to continue going on like this in future. and also, btob and i love and treasure our melodies. never ending and the urge to keep moving forward.. that’s our method of loving.
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In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
