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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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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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 learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
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I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
