Peter Diamandis Quotes
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
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Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?
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Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?
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The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
