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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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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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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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
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We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
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I've stood in rooms in urban, rural, and suburban parts of my state and asked a room of middle class voters to raise their hands if the college debt of someone in their family is affecting their financial situation. Without exception, at least three quarters of the room will raise their hand.
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I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.
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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.
