Peter Diamandis Quotes
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.
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I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.
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We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.
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I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world.
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I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
