Peter Diamandis Quotes
I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
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The work of creation is never without travail
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I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
