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Dean Kamen Quotes

My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

Dean Kamen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: american
Birth: April 5, 1951

Topics

Father Science Moving On Moving Mad

In my past life, I started Moviefone. One of the reasons that I was drawn to do that was because it was just incredibly annoying to go see a movie when it should be the simplest thing in the world. I lived in New York, and it was really difficult to figure out the show times for a movie playing down the street.

Andrew Jarecki

Life Past New York World Down New

You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.

Melina Mercouri

Me Warm You Know Said True

Most elite big men are high maintenance.

Jeff Van Gundy

Men Maintenance High Elite Big Most

Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need to labor intensely with your own brain and soul for the meaning of the work instead of cutting and pasting a bunch of stuff together from the Internet and - boom! - there you are with a performance ready to go.

Stephen Hough

Work Learning Great Struggle Soul

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, 'Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or 'MTV.' I think 'Vice' is in that category now.

Tom Freston

Success Live Time Night Think You

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

Rita Ora

Blonde Dark Always Contrast Being

This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'

Robin DiAngelo

Time Racism Think Doing Over Only

One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.

Ron Fournier

Friend Father Confidence Time Skin

The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.

Michel Hazanavicius

Story You Back Cinema Feelings Go

I don't feel pressure going into games.

Michael Owen

Pressure Feel Games Going

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

Derek Luke

Love Me You Artist Hip-Hop Tell

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

Donald E. Westlake

God Me Wonder Nothing Up Anything