Peter Diamandis Quotes
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
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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.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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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.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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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.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
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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.
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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.
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Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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Energy is called 'the master resource' for a reason.
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Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities.
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People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.
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I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
