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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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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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.
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The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
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Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.
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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
