Dean Kamen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
-
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
-
There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
-
I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
-
I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
-
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
-
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
-
When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
-
There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
-
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
-
Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
-
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
-
Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
-
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
-
The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
-
Part of me wants nothing to do with any Hollywood. But another part of me wants to go there. I feel like I could be successful at it.
-
I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.
-
The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself.
-
It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
-
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain - No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.
-
I'd always read a lot about rock 'n' roll growing up, but the first real thing I set out to do was become an English professor. Even so, I always hoped in some way or another that I would get to write about music in a popular - non-academic - format.
-
When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.
