Peter Diamandis Quotes
When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I get homesick.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
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You can divide my life into two.
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Most of my cliches aren't original.
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Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.
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When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.
