Dean Kamen Quotes
Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.
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I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and woman relate in a family setting. Therefore, I have given over my life to mentoring young people. I'm adamant about young people who have been denied a father/daughter relationship.
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Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
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Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.
