Peter Diamandis Quotes
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
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I've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father was a musician, and I've seen pictures of him when he was in a band playing guitar and piano. He loved country music, Frank Sinatra, and stuff like that.
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In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.
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Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military.
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I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
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I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
