Peter Diamandis Quotes
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.
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Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
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I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.
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In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.
