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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John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
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I've been so transient, I've been on my own since I was 16. I didn't even have my own place until I was 32 years old. I literally lived out of bags for 16-plus years.
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I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
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And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
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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.
