Dean Kamen Quotes

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

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• I usually say I left puberty at 58.

  

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• What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.

  

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• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

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• I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

  

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• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

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• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

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• You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

  

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• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

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• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

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• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

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• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

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• I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

  

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• A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

  

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• I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

  

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• I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

  

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• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

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• When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

  

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• My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.

  

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• Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.

  

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• I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.

  

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• I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.

  

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• 'There are so many misunderstandings in life. I once caused a scandal by saying I lived with two men ... I didn't mean it in a sexual sense ... I was just too dirty to clean my act up.'.

  

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• To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Fire