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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Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.
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I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.
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Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!
