Peter Diamandis Quotes
I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I am really addicted to music.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
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I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.
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When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.'
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If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going to grow, you're going to be a better person, it's going to contribute to your family or to your kids or to something that matters, and you keep saying 'I can't do it,' there is no question—you must do it. You don't discuss it anymore. You just take immediate action... You do what's necessary.
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I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.
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I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.
