Dean Kamen Quotes
Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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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.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.
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Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.
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Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.
