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.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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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.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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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.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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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.
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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.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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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.
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People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
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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.
