Peter Diamandis Quotes
In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.Peter Diamandis
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner -
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
Otto Schily -
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Zoltan Kodaly -
I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
Jacob deGrom -
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
Pat Buchanan
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
Nate Silver -
With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro -
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp -
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
Quentin Tarantino -
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
Pat Cash -
I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
Edan Lepucki
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
Nancy Wake -
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
Ed Markey -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
Zaha Hadid -
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
H. Rap Brown -
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
Jackson Katz
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
Jack Youngblood -
A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.
John Eccles -
As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.
David Grinspoon -
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.
Lucy Hale -
In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
Peter Diamandis