Blake Mycoskie Quotes
When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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Ideas come through us, not from us.
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Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.
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Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.
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I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. People frame it in a negative way, like, 'For Asian-Americans there's no one out there, so that must be really bad for you.' No, I benefited from it.
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All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.
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I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.
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When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
