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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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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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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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.
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I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can't force it. This terrible word - 'networking' - I really hate.
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As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.
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I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
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Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
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When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
