Peter Diamandis Quotes
Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.
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I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.
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I'm in love with what a high heel does to a leg: how it makes a woman or a man feel. It's empowering.
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Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
