Peter Diamandis Quotes
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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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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I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
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I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.
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Let's face it: fitness is boring. But it's critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There's no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.
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I've been in the service industry. I've bar-tended. I've waited tables, and I've worked at pizza places; I've made pizza. I've had a lot of jobs, and many of them were in the food service industry.
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Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.
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And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.
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There was this about him: he knew who I was, but he hadn’t remembered my name. Ron Cole had better things to think about than what name belonged with whom. A name was only a tag and a conversational gambit.
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What family doesn't have its ups and downs?
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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
