Dean Kamen Quotes
Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
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I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I would move to New York in a heartbeat.
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Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I've had quite a wide spread of a career. But it's not like I've had to negotiate what Sienna Miller has had to negotiate, or even Felicity Jones, for example.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.
