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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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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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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I wish people would take more care of the countryside.
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I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical.
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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.
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The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
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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.
