Peter Diamandis Quotes
My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.
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I enjoy romantic comedies in general. I like them when they're bad, I like when they're good.
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The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.
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In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.
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My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
