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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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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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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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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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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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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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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Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.
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I'm realizing that my childhood is not my daughter's, that I can't heal myself by any actions I take with her - and that it's definitely time for me to go back to my own childhood... with my therapist.
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Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
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David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
