Dean Kamen Quotes

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

Dean Kamen

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• It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Control
  • Best

• I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Door
  • Step
  • First Step

• To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Effort
  • Listen
  • Duck

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fight

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Play
  • Things
  • Born

• I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Retail

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Work
  • Passion

• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Technology
  • Innovation
  • Accountability

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Thug

• The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Rock
  • Sometimes
  • Stars

• You not only do you appreciate the sacrifices people have made and the hours they've kept and the soccer games they missed and the birthday parties, but I also had a lot of young people who came in here [to White House], and this probably, you know, echoes with you, in your own experience, you were young when you got here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Experience
  • House

• Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

  

  Melissa Manchester
  • People
  • Writing
  • Intention

• I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • People
  • Dumb