Dean Kamen Quotes
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
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A social system is a mode of organization of action elements relative to the persistence or ordered processes of change of the interactive patterns of a plurality of individual actors.
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Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.
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Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.
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All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
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Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.
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My God, thank you. Thank you very much. I'm almost embarrassed by the response, but when I see this, I know that the twenty five years that I've spent trying to make you happy every night of your life was worth every damn minute of it.
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So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.
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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
