Peter Diamandis Quotes
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.Peter Diamandis
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
Malcolm Wallop -
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Youssou N'Dour -
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
Larry Wall -
In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke -
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov -
There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.
Adam Jones -
My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
J. R. Martinez -
If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
Carlene Carter -
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor -
What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
Barry McGuigan
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I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.
Taylor Sheridan -
I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
Taylor Swift -
Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
Ramana Maharshi -
Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
Patrick Henry -
True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
Larry Wall
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.
Nas -
ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.
Thomas Sowell -
The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.
George Gilder -
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
Peter Diamandis