Peter Diamandis Quotes
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.
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When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.
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I didn't feel attractive in high school.
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male 'culture,' in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our 'society' are raving sex maniacs.
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No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.
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No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.
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Undocumented workers can't report if they're not being paid overtime, or if their health and safety laws are being violated, of if they're not getting the minimum wage. And so a lot of times companies prefer to hire them in order to take advantage of them. We've got to crack down on those employers.
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Private companies should be building businesses.
