Dean Kamen Quotes
Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.
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The thing that gives me great hope is that I think, if anything, our world now is ready to be, like, 'This stuff happens.' We're not trying to pretend like terrible things don't happen, that uncomfortable situations, uncomfortable behavior, unhealthy behaviors don't occur in our daily lives.
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Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.
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Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
