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" You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. "
Dean Kamen
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" When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen. "
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" If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it. "
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" An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. "
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" Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. "
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" As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen. "
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" As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought. "
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" My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid. "
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" I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea. "
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" To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. "
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" Even though I was super personal with 'American Teen,' I want to tap in and not just tell my own stories but tell the stories of other people - so that I can help as many people as possible. "
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" To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. "
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" My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing. "
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" As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering. "
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" So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible! "
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" I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life. "
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" Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding. "
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" We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed. "
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" Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare. "
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Food
Real
" 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. "
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" Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private. "
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" It's so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience - except you. You're on the outside. "
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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. "
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" You can't look at the problem and say, 'I want them to do more, better, faster miracles - and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.' It's unrealistic. "
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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. "
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Hurt
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" The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future. "
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" Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception. "
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" My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. "
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