Peter Diamandis Quotes
Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.
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2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record. Now, one year doesn’t make a trend, but this does: 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century.
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Sweet darlin’, come hold me, Just a little bit longer now
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Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.
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I have no patience for anybody that doubts me, none at all.
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They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.
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Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.
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My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.
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Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
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Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.
