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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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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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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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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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 advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.
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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
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Some people say I make mistakes, I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don’t they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren’t necessarily mine. That’s the mistake people make.
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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.
