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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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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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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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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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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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.
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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A little exposure to a city like Sulaimani will help Trump understand that the Middle East is a much more complex place than he seems to believe. Perhaps Trump could even give a speech at the American University in Sulaimani, just as President Obama did at Cairo University early in his first term.
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The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and differences, so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred, and war.
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Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
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Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
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Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.
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Given the prolonged work stoppage and the league's TV ratings history, no financial model even remotely supports the contract terms offered.
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I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
