Peter Diamandis Quotes
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
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It is difficult to determine whether Georgians hated Sherman and his army as much as the Spartans despised Epaminondas and the Thebans. Both men had wrecked their centuries-old practice of apartheid in a matter of weeks. It is a dangerous and foolhardy thing for a slaveholding society to arouse a democracy of such men.
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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
