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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There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.
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Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.
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You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
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Enya is more than just me. It's also Nicky, who arranges my melodies, and his wife Roma, who writes the lyrics. They believed in my music from day one
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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
