Dean Kamen Quotes

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

Dean Kamen

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BusinessPassionPlanDoneNever

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

Jello Biafra

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I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.

John Caudwell

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When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

Sophie Hannah

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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

Steven Spielberg

BeginningPeopleStoryEndNever

'Commitment' is a marvelous word.

Ruby Dee

CommitmentWordMarvelous

When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review in the daily 'New York Times' and one in the weekly 'New York Times Book Review,' too, for good measure. But by and large, it was not a conversation-generating book.

Michelle Dean

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My favorite song is 'No Air,' a duet I did with Chris Brown. I don't want to sound weird or anything, but I listen to it a lot - it's always on my iPod!

Jordin Sparks

SongWeirdWantListenSoundAir

If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.

Douglas Trumbull

PeopleBetterYouWantSomething

Let's face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible.

Chuck Norris

KnowledgeFoodFaceProcessPossible

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Alice Walker

LifeImpactMy LifeYouKnowMean

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?

Penelope Keith

LifeCharacterBestQualityJob

If I get too old to write, or short-term memory loss - that was the one Philip Roth was worried about - if I got to that point, that would be terrible, because everything about my life has been streaming toward writing and having something to say. That would make me feel as though I were in an iron maiden of some kind.

Thomas McGuane

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