Edwin Drake Quotes
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
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Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.
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In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
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If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.
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There ain't nothing that we need to be worried about. We just need to be in the right lane where everybody else be in the left lane.
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
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'They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.'
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.
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A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!
