Peter Diamandis Quotes
We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.
Peter Diamandis
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
Pankaj Mishra
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
Ian Mcewan
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
Rachel Cusk
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I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
Rachel Bloom
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
Olivia Wilde
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
Larry Cohen
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
Kate Smith
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There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
Adam Davidson
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
Tea Obreht
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
Harrison Ford
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
Oliver Stone
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I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
Sarah Dessen
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The basic contentions of the argument of this book are implicit in its title and sub-title, namely, that reality is socially constructed and that the sociology of knowledge must analyse the process in which this occurs.
Peter L. Berger
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It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.
William Schutz
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We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.
Peter Diamandis
