Dean Kamen Quotes

When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.

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• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.

  

  Magdalena Frackowiak
  • Like
  • Look
  • Makeup

• I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Planning

• 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.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Water
  • Enough
  • 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.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Myself
  • Self
  • Laugh

• 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.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Important
  • 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.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Life
  • Time
  • Today

• Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Care

• I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Winning
  • Chance
  • Same

• 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.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • God
  • Dream
  • Day

• 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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Successful

• 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.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Long
  • Mom
  • Same

• I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Independent

• My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Coward

• A man is morally free when... he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Men
  • Free

• There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

  

  Jack Valenti

• For a younger generation to imagine a time where there was no security at airports - going around the world in the bar of a jumbo jet, 'Tell the plane to wait, I'm running late!' - there is something very Austin Powers about David Frost, a man who, in all seriousness, would approach women in a safari suit, with sideburns.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I've got to give you some straight talk: Some of the jobs that have left the state of Michigan are not coming back. They are not. And I am sorry to tell you that.

  

  John McCain
  • Sorry

• In a moment of stress, funding may go to systemically-important firms, which could pull funding away from firms not making the cut.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • Important
  • May
  • Stress

• When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.

  

  Dean Kamen